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Pol Pot
"First, I want to let you know that I came to join the revolution, not to kill the Cambodian people," Pol Pot
"Whoever wishes to blame or attack me is entitled to do so. I regret I didn't have enough experience to totally control the movement. On the other hand, with our constant struggle, this had to be done together with others in the communist world to stop Kampuchea becoming Vietnamese." Pol Pot
"A policy of mass murder devised at the highest levels of power and implemented through a coordinated chain of command. No longer will those most responsible for the deaths of nearly one third of the population of Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge reign be able to say they did not know," Report released by Documentation Centre of Cambodia
Mao Zedong
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." Mao
"War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun." Mao
"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another." - Mao
"Although Comrade Mao Zedong made grave mistakes in his later years, it is clear that if we consider his life work, his contributions to the Chinese revolution far outweigh his errors ... His immense contributions are immortal." - Hu Yaobang
"Chief responsibility for the grave 'Left' error of the 'cultural revolution', an error comprehensive in magnitude and protracted in duration, does indeed lie with Comrade Mao Zedong," the resolution says. "Far from making a correct analysis of many problems, he confused right and wrong and the people with the enemy ... Herein lies his tragedy." - the CCP formally adopts a resolution reviewing the 60 years since its founding that condemns the Cultural Revolution and assesses Mao's role in it.
Kim Il Sung
"We believe that the situation makes it necessary and possible to liberate the whole country through military means" Kim talking to Stalin about invading S. Korea
"The Korean people achieved the heroic victory in the three years fighting against the armed invaders, the Imperialist Yankees, to defend the freedom and independence of the Motherland. The North American imperialist aggressors suffered an humiliating defeat in their military adventure when they tried to convert our Motherland into their colony and make Korean people become slaves for them." Kim after the Korean War
"Factionalists or enemies of class, whoever they are, their seed must be eliminated through three generations." - Kim condemns up to three generations of the families of political prisoners to life imprisonment without trial.
"Pyongyang and today's North Korea is a socialist paradise where all the people have a life with dignity, without poverty and more than ever demonstrate the invincibility and union of the masses around the Leader." - Democratic People's Republic of Korea official website
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