Excerpts from classic quotations from the Age of Awakening

Li Dazhao: The earth has turned white, and we are still young. We use our youth to soften the white hair of the earth. Although we are old, we are not yet old. . Therefore, as long as the earth exists, our youth will exist. If our youth exists, the youth of the earth will exist. ("Youth")

Chen Duxiu: If the Chinese people want to escape from the age of ignorance and are ashamed of being a simple people, they should urgently catch up and attach equal importance to science and human rights. Scholars don’t know science, so they follow the Yin-Yang family’s theory of Fu Rui and the Five Elements, confusing the world and the people; farmers don’t know science, so they don’t know how to select seeds and remove insects; workers don’t know science, so their goods are abandoned on the ground; they rely on foreign countries; merchants don’t know science. , so only knowledge ignores short-term benefits, and has no regard for future uses; doctors do not know science and do not understand the structure of the human body. There are endless truths in the universe, and those who are waiting to be discovered in the realm of science are so vast. How can young people be so reluctant? (The founding words of "New Youth")

Chen Duxiu: Youth is like the early spring, like the morning sun, like the sprouting of hundreds of flowers, like the new hair of a sharp knife, it is the most precious period of life.

("Advice to the Youth")

Zhou Enlai: We were born in the era of competition in the 20th century, in a weak and languishing China, in a critical time when foreign aggression and Japan were pressing us, and we had too much time to take care of ourselves. Save...everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world! ("Dedication")

Mao Zedong: The world is our world; the country is our country; the society is our society; if we don't say it, who will? If we don’t do it, who will?