Early Life and Marriage

"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery. "
-Mao Zedong 
  
   At the age of 13, Mao was forced to marry a 17-year-old woman. However, Mao ran away from home instead and then later avidly spoke out about how arranged marriages took away both women and men's rights. 
"All marriages are to be based on the free consent of men and women." 
–Mao Zedong
People who inspired Mao Zedong...

1) George Washington

2) Napoleon Bonaparte

3) Sun Yat-sen (Feminist) 

4) Karl Marx

5) Vladimir Lenin
   
   "The Xinhai Revolution began a process that has ramifications today. It is possible the monarchy would have fallen later, but it did fall in 1911 and China has been permanently affected."    - Anonymous article on Answer.China.com

   Mao joined Sun Yat-sen's army and was a part of the Xinhai revolution, which overthrew the monarchy and established the Republic of China (ROC). 
   
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Xinhai Revolution