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Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng pleaded for unity among supporters of China's overseas democracy movement in a half-hour long speech at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum on Wednesday afternoon...
...When I was young, I didn't really understand all the conditions of Chinese people," Wei, 58, said through a translator...
...Once I saw the oppression and lack of freedom then I determined as my own goal to obtain freedom and democracy for ordinary people so that all could enjoy the same kind of freedom," Wei said, his voice rising with each syllable...
...Wei railed against complacency and sought to infuse the audience with a renewed sense of confidence in the struggle for democracy in China...
After 16 years of imprisonment, Wei was finally released in November after intense but low-profile lobbying by the Clinton administration...