I have no enemies Activist’s final message to China

Liu Xiaobo was not allowed to pick up his Nobel Peace Prize in 2010. Instead, an actress read his text I Have No Enemies: My Final Statement: “I firmly believe that China’s political progress will not stop, and I, filled with optimism, look forward to the advent of a future free China. For there is no force that can put an end to the human quest for freedom, and China will in the end become a nation ruled by law, where human rights reign supreme.”

Addressing his wife Liu Xia he wrote: “Throughout all these years that I have lived without freedom, our love was full of bitterness imposed by outside circumstances, but as I savour its aftertaste, it remains boundless. I am serving my sentence in a tangible prison, while you wait in the intangible prison of the heart. Your love is the sunlight that leaps over high walls and penetrates the iron bars of my prison window, stroking every inch of my skin, warming every cell of my body, allowing me to always keep peace, openness, and brightness in my heart, and filling every minute of my time in prison with meaning. “Even if I were crushed into powder, I would still use my ashes to embrace you. “I look forward to [the day] when my country is a land with freedom of expression, where every citizen can state political views without fear, and where no one can, under any circumstances, suffer political persecution for voicing divergent political views. “I hope I will be the last victim of China’s endless literary inquisitions and that from now on no one will be incriminated because of speech.”