I wanted to stand up and testify in my personal status-as a writer who was imprisoned, shackled, and beaten because I insisted on freedom of speech and refused to bow down before authoritarianism; and as a "thought criminal" for whom a military court sought the death penalty-to the fact that the dark ages are over in Taiwan, and that mothers will no longer have to cry for political reasons.
希望以我的身份──一個因堅持言論自由、拒絕向威權屈膝的寫作人，曾受過苦刑拷打、曾被軍事法庭要求槍決的思想犯，站出來見證：見證台灣漫長的大黑暗時代，已經過去，我們的母親，永遠不會再因政治因素，為她們的孩子們哭泣。