Empress Dowager Cixi Quotes

Now they the Powers have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

Empress Dowager Cixi

• Fighting
• Faces
• Arms
• Aggression
• Ancestor
• Extinction

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• Now they the Powers have started the aggression, and the extinction of our nation is imminent. If we just fold our arms and yield to them, I would have no face to see our ancestors after death. If we must perish, why not fight to the death?

  

  Empress Dowager Cixi
  • Fighting
  • Faces
  • Arms