没有人权，就没有全人
Without Human rights，no human can do anything right
——第一届刘晓波人权奖开幕致词
谢志伟
中华民国台湾驻欧盟代表
各位敬爱的朋友，大家好！
今天我很荣幸能以台湾驻欧盟代表的身分受邀出席第一届刘晓波人权奖的颁奖典礼。
作为开幕致词来宾之一，我想以台湾的用语“人格者”来形容我对刘晓波这位当代中国的知识分子的敬仰，因为他的思想及行动是当今世界受到各种极权迫害的人类之典范。在台湾，“人格者”指的是拥有高贵情操，为了一个崇高的理念而牺牲小我，完成大我的人。
作为一位“人格者”，刘晓波的理想是要让所有不幸被中国共产党统治的中国人、图博人、维吾尔人、南蒙人、香港人等有机缘成为“全人”。
而我所谓的“全人”，指的是享有“天赋人权”的人。反过来说：
“没有人权，就没有全人”。
而中共谎称“中国文化与西方的人权价值体系无法相容”来剥夺所有被他统治的人之“天赋人权”，唯有臣服于这个专制独裁政权的人才算是完整的人，而，那不是完人，那应该是整人。
对此，容我指出，所谓西方的人权价值其实是普世价值，因为当初的欧美民族也必须透过契而不舍的努力、甚至各种牺牲才能使“天赋人权”成为颠扑不破的真理。
也就是说，虽然叫“天赋人权”，但是它不会从天上掉下来——天上掉下来的只有雨滴和鸟屎。当年的美国内战就是一个例子。
今年是美国独立建国250周年，我在此以他们第16任总统林肯先生那篇于内战中所发表的一篇至今仍脍炙人口的盖兹堡演讲的开端和结尾作为我致词的基础。
1863年11月19日，美国内战仍在进行中，林肯总统在宾夕法尼亚州的盖兹堡悼念那些牺牲了宝贵生命的军人做了一场至今仍然脍炙人口的短讲。
演讲的开头是：
“八十七年前，我们的先人于这片大陆建立了一个新国家，它孕育于自由之中，并奉行一个信念：人人生而平等。”
人人生而平等、那是美国于1776年7月4日建国精神里最简洁而神圣的宣言。
这篇演讲稿的结语则是：
“吾人务必不能让‘民有、民治、民享’的政府自地球上消失。”
各位朋友，人人生而平等是天赋人权的基础，而民有、民治、民享的政府则是天赋人权的保障。
“民有”，代表国家属于人民，而非某个政党。
“民治”，代表权力来自人民，而非暴力或特权。
“民享”，代表一切施政，最终都是以人民的福祉为依归。
中共政权的所作所为刚好相反，叫“倒行逆施”。
光拿《孟子》说的：“民为贵，社稷次之，君为轻。”，我们就可以安中共一个“倒行逆施”的罪名。
各为敬爱的朋友们，
1863年11月19日的整整127年之后，也就是1989年的11月19日，柏林围墙正式倒塌，布拉格的天鹅绒革命爆发，最后整个东欧共产铁幕风消云散。
而我们不能忽略掉之前5个月前中国天安门的人民和平集会及中共的残暴屠杀对欧洲这场人民团结起来推倒铁幕高墙所扮演的意义。
在此，我要对所有中共政权的牺牲者，尤其天安门的母亲们，还有所有为因坚持理念而流亡在外的朋友们，以及承办这次刘晓波人权奖的所有朋友，特别是天琪、永忠，表达我的最高敬意。
最后，让我以一句话作为结语。
中共政权对所有要求天赋人权的人民都有“明文处罚”，然而这些其实不是“明文处罚”，而是“处罚文明。”
因此，中国共产党是中国文明的不幸。
而要是有人说，中国共产党不会倒，我也同样不信。
团结力量大！
祝福各位，平安健康、万事顺利！
Opening Remarks at the First Liu Xiaobo Human Rights Award Ceremony
Prof. Dr. Shieh Jhy-Wey
Representative of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to the European Union
Dear friends,
It is a great honor to be invited, in my capacity as Taiwan’s Representative to the European Union, to attend the presentation ceremony of the First Liu Xiaobo Human Rights Award.
As one of the opening speakers, I would like to describe my admiration for Liu Xiaobo, one of contemporary China’s greatest intellectuals, with a uniquely Taiwanese expression: a person of noble character. His ideas and his actions have become an inspiration to all those around the world who suffer persecution under totalitarian regimes. In Taiwan, a person of noble character is someone who possesses moral integrity and who is willing to sacrifice personal interests for a higher ideal and for the greater good.
As such a person, Liu Xiaobo devoted himself to enabling all those unfortunate enough to live under the rule of the Chinese Communist Party—including Chinese, Tibetans, Uyghurs, Southern Mongolians, Hong Kongers, and others—to become what I would call whole human beings.
By a whole human being, I mean a person who enjoys the inalienable rights with which all human beings are endowed by nature. Put differently:
Without human rights, there can be no whole human being.
The Chinese Communist Party falsely claims that Chinese culture is incompatible with the Western concept of human rights, using this argument to deprive everyone under its rule of their natural and inalienable rights. Under its system, only those who submit to authoritarian rule are regarded as complete persons. But such people are not truly fulfilled human beings; they are merely people who have been molded and manipulated by the regime.
Allow me to make one point clear: what are often called “Western values” of human rights are, in reality, universal values. The peoples of Europe and North America did not receive these rights effortlessly. They secured them only through persistent struggle and tremendous sacrifice before the principle of inalienable human rights became an enduring truth.
In other words, although we call them “natural rights,” they do not simply fall from the sky. The only things that fall from the sky are raindrops—and bird droppings. The American Civil War is one example of the sacrifices required to make those rights a reality.
This year marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States. I would therefore like to base my remarks on the opening and closing passages of President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, delivered during the Civil War.
On November 19, 1863, while the war was still raging, President Lincoln honored those who had given their lives at Gettysburg with a speech that remains one of the greatest in history.
He began:
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
“All men are created equal” is perhaps the clearest and most sacred expression of the spirit upon which the United States was founded on July 4, 1776.
Lincoln concluded his address by expressing the hope
“…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Dear friends,
The belief that all people are created equal forms the foundation of inalienable human rights. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people is what safeguards those rights.
“Of the people” means that the state belongs to its citizens—not to a political party.
“By the people” means that political power derives from the people—not from violence or privilege.
“For the people” means that every policy and every act of government should ultimately serve the well-being of the people.
The Chinese Communist Party does precisely the opposite. It governs in complete contradiction to these principles.
Even Mencius, over two thousand years ago, declared:
“The people are of supreme importance; the state comes next; the ruler is of the least importance.”
Measured against this standard alone, the Chinese Communist Party stands condemned for governing in direct opposition to this fundamental principle.
Dear friends,
Exactly 127 years after November 19, 1863—on November 19, 1989—the Berlin Wall officially fell. The Velvet Revolution erupted in Prague, and soon afterward the Communist Iron Curtain across Eastern Europe disappeared.
Yet we should never overlook the significance of what had happened five months earlier: the peaceful demonstrations in Tiananmen Square and the brutal massacre carried out by the Chinese Communist regime. The courage and sacrifice of those demonstrators became an important source of inspiration for the peoples of Europe as they united to bring down the Iron Curtain.
Today, I pay my deepest respects to all the victims of the Chinese Communist regime, especially the Tiananmen Mothers; to all those forced into exile because they refused to abandon their principles; and to everyone who made this inaugural Liu Xiaobo Human Rights Award possible—especially Tianqi and Yongzhong.
Allow me to conclude with one final thought.
The Chinese Communist regime imposes legal punishment upon those who demand their natural human rights. But what it punishes is not merely people; it punishes civilization itself.
For that reason, the Chinese Communist Party is a tragedy for Chinese civilization.
And if anyone says that the Chinese Communist Party will never fall, I do not believe that either.
Unity is strength.
Thank you all.
【欧洲之声】2026.07.15
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