CCP - Let the People Speak the Sky Will Not Fall

As protest mounted, people started posting an article version of a speech by Mao called Let the People Speak The Sky Will Not Fall. These desperate struggles were given relatively little attention by a Western media class enamored with the image of students carrying blank white pieces of paper to protest the censorship. Chinese censors quickly ran into a classic CCP problem, which is that in a state whose heroes are communist revolutionaries, celebrated historical figures produced an immense repertoire of slogans and quotes.