Fang Lizhi, Who Inspired Chinese Dissidents, Dies

“Democracy is built from the bottom up,” he told students at Shanghai’s Tongji University in November 1986, according to an account by longtime China watcher Orville Schell. “Although we seldom dare utter the words ‘human rights,’ actually human rights are very basic.”

via Fang Lizhi, Who Inspired Chinese Dissidents, Dies – WSJ.com.