My basic ideas have not changed. I see no reason to change them. - Israel Epstein

We are indeed living through tremendous days, weeks and months that do indeed “shake the world” ― rejuvenating, revivifying, scraping all the barnacles off the mind and scraping off those who have themselves become barnacles on the cause.

The absence of greed; faith in an ever-better future; the spirit of service to the people; the prevalence of mutual aid,rarity of theft, and readiness of all ranks of society, and particularly of the youth, to volunteer despite fatigue and peril.

Different indeed from any colonial or semi-colonial path is the road of Tibet within socialist China. As we have seen from facts and figures, Tibet is massively assisted and in no way exploited by the majority nationality. Economic errors were made, involving waste of labor and funds, which was true in other areas of China as well, but nothing was taken away from the Region and its people for the material benefit of anywhere else.