"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. ... If you want to know the theory7 and methods of revolution, you must take part in the revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience."
Mao Zedong was a Chinese revolutionary and political leader who founded the Peoples Republic of China in 1949. He led the Chinese Communist Party for decades and remains one of the most consequential figures in modern Chinese history.