"I am Taiwanese, and I think that today the voice of the Taiwanese has become too loud. But in those days, for him to persist in speaking up for the Taiwanese required unusual moral courage," says Hsieh Kuo-hsing, an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History.
「我是台灣人，我認為今天台灣人的聲音已經太大了，但在那個時代，他能夠堅持發出台灣人的聲音，是很需要不凡的道德勇氣」，中央研究院近代史研究所副研究員謝國興說。