We stand for self-reliance. We hope for foreign aid but cannot be dependent on it; we depend on our own efforts, on the creative power of the whole army and the entire people.

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.

In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people.

. . . dogma is less useful than cow dung. One can make whatever one likes out of it, even revisionism. . . .

I have witnessed the tremendous energy of the masses. On this foundation it is possible to accomplish any task whatsoever.

We Communists never conceal our political views. Definitely and beyond all doubt, our future or maximum program is to carry China forward to socialism and communism. Both the name of our Party and our Marxist world outlook unequivocally point to this supreme ideal of the future, a future of incomparable brightness and splendor.

Let one thousand flowers bloom.