The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
 Mao Zedong, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (1964). copy citation

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Author Mao Zedong
Source Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung
Topic masses hero
Date 1964
Language English
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Note Translated by Foreign Language Press, Peking
Weblink https://archive.org/details/QuotationsFromChairmanMaoTse-tung