“If I don’t say them, it will put me in an even more dangerous situation. But if I say them, change may occur. To speak is better than not to speak: if everyone spoke, this society would have transformed itself long ago. Change happens when every citizen says what he or she wants to say; one person’s silence exposes another to danger.”

aus: Ai Weiwei: 1000 years of joys and sorrows. London: Bodley Head 2021, S.264.

Abb.: Ai Weiwei: Remembering. She lived happily in this world for seven years. 2009, im Internet.

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