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Chinese dissidents in exile share experiences in Pgh North Side!
Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer whose escape from home confinement to the U.S. Embassy last year caused a diplomatic crisis, said there comes a time when you've got to knuckle under or leave -- and he just couldn't see giving in to his government's bullying.
"If you decide to kneel down, tomorrow he will ask you to bow to him," he told several hundred people gathered under a tent. "A dictatorship will never be satisfied with what you do for it."
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