Hong Kong might be a small place, but its people make it unique. The iconic images of skyscrapers in this bustling metropolis are famous around the world, but it is the people of Hong Kong, standing up for their city on the streets, who make it truly great.
We long to have a home where civil freedoms are respected, where our children will not be subject to mass surveillance, abuse of human rights, political censorship and mass incarceration.
We desire and thirst for freedom, democracy and the rule of law just like anyone else. And we are prepared to fight tooth and nail for all of those things.
As the remaining voices for civil disobedience are suppressed, the political spectrum narrows even further.
In a world where ideas and ideals flow freely, we want what everybody else in an advanced society seems to have: a say in our future.
It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.
When I was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018, I felt that this should go to all of the Hong Kong people who fight for democracy.
In 2011, when I established the activist group Scholarism, I could have not imagined that a year later, 100,000 people would take to the street and occupy for a week to urge the government to withdraw the national education curriculum.
People may recognize me as some sort of superhero, but it's different. Spider-Man and all these other superheroes, they get superpowers and do what they want to save the city. If we need to save Hong Kong, we can't rely on superpowers, we can just rely on the people.
My generation could be the first in Hong Kong to be worse off than our parents.
The anti-extradition movement is larger and much more organised than the Umbrella Movement in 2014.
I am a pro-democracy activist asking for free elections in Hong Kong.
I have been fighting for democracy since I was 15 when I organised a strike to oppose the Hong Kong government's plan to introduce the Chinese patriotic school education; 100,000 people surrounded a government building with students asking for democracy for every citizen.
From horrific incidents of police brutality and complicity in indiscriminate attacks by triads on citizens to arbitrary mass arrests and the banning of demonstrations, the government has employed nearly every weapon in its war chest to intimidate Hong Kongers into silence and to suppress their popular struggle for democracy and freedom.
We shall continue our fight for democracy and freedom because we do not accept that Hong Kong will be transformed into a police state.
I'm a Christian and my motivation for joining activism is that I think we should be salt and light.
If a mass movement turns into worshipping a particular person, that's a great problem.
Hong Kongers deserve universal suffrage.
For generations of Hong Kongers, the only means of upward mobility and the only way to meaningfully contribute to society have been to obtain a respectable university degree (preferably in business administration) and a professional accreditation (in finance, accounting, law or medicine).
There's no doubt that the Chinese government is waging a full-fledged crackdown on Demosisto.
