Chairman Mao Some Quotes from Mao's Little Red Book
Chapter 17 --- Serving the People

We should be modest and prudent, guard against arrogance and rashness, and serve the Chinese people heart and soul.

Or point of departure is to serve the people wholeheartedly and never for a moment divorce ourselves from the masses, to proceed in all cases from the interests of the people and not from one's self-interest or from the interests of a small group, and to identify our responsibility to the people with our responsibility to the leading organs of the Party.

The organs of state must practice democratic centralism, they must rely on the masses and their personnel must serve the people.

Our duty is to hold ourselves responsible to the people. Every word, every act and every policy must conform to the people's interests, and if mistakes occur, they must be corrected -- that is what being responsible to the people means.

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