#pacifist — Public Fediverse posts
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Nguyễn Quyền (1869–1941) was a #Vietnamese #scholar & #AntiColonial #revolutionary #activist who advocated independence from #French #colonial rule. He was a contemporary of Phan Bội Châu & Phan Chu Trinh & one of Tonkin Free School's founders.
"The more I read the more I become aware that the things we studied, our examination system, were wrong – indeed the real reasons for our having lost our country. From that point on I was determined to seize upon our country's literature and on modern learning to awaken our citizenry."
Quyen advocated the modernisation of Vietnam's #education system. Around 1903 or 1904, Quyen met Tang Bat Ho, who had returned from his travels abroad & talked extensively about the modernisation of Japan. In 1904 he met with Phan Bội Châu, but Quyen had little in common with Chau's ideology of using violence to achieve independence. Quyen went on the work with Lương Văn Can & Le Dai in setting up the Dong Kinh Thuc Nghia, which sought to strengthen the Vietnamese people & thereby the likelihood of independence through the training of a new, more modern generation of scholars.
In 1908, Quyen was arrested in a general crackdown by French authorities and sent to jail on Côn Lôn island. He died in the prison which was infamous for torturing political prisoners.
Ref: Marr, David G. (1970). Vietnamese Anticolonialism, 1885–1925. Berkeley: University of California. ISBN 0-520-01813-3.
#AsianMastodon #Vietnam #VietnameseRevolutionaries #ColonialResistance #Pacifist #VietnameseHistory #AsianHistory #Educator #SouthEastAsia #Viet #Geopolitics #LongLiveVietnam #VietnameseSovereignty #LearnHistory #TootSEA #FrenchColonialism #Indochina
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As bizarre as it is for someone who considers themself an absolutist #pacifist, there is no #negotiating with a #regime that views "negotiations" as "time to repair and rearm and which views #Humanitarian
So even with all that hesitancy, I cannot do anything but insist that #Ukraine be given every necessity to evict the #evil #monsters that #bomb #theatres with the word, "Children" written in big letters out front.#Russia is a #state run by #ChildMurderers, #rapists, #thieves, and all manner of evils.
It must be reformed or destroyed if our future is to have #peace. -
As bizarre as it is for someone who considers themself an absolutist #pacifist, there is no #negotiating with a #regime that views "negotiations" as "time to repair and rearm and which views #Humanitarian
So even with all that hesitancy, I cannot do anything but insist that #Ukraine be given every necessity to evict the #evil #monsters that #bomb #theatres with the word, "Children" written in big letters out front.#Russia is a #state run by #ChildMurderers, #rapists, #thieves, and all manner of evils.
It must be reformed or destroyed if our future is to have #peace. -
As bizarre as it is for someone who considers themself an absolutist #pacifist, there is no #negotiating with a #regime that views "negotiations" as "time to repair and rearm and which views #Humanitarian
So even with all that hesitancy, I cannot do anything but insist that #Ukraine be given every necessity to evict the #evil #monsters that #bomb #theatres with the word, "Children" written in big letters out front.#Russia is a #state run by #ChildMurderers, #rapists, #thieves, and all manner of evils.
It must be reformed or destroyed if our future is to have #peace.