Circulating through the streets of Cairo Friday night, with families packed into cars honking their horns in celebration and everyone strolling to Tahrir Square, I heard so many celebratory chants, but none more accurate and powerful in its simplicity than this one: “The people of Egypt made the regime step down.’’The overwhelming sense of personal empowerment here, by a people so long kept down and underestimated by their own government was a sight to behold.
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/02/12/postcard_from_a_free_egypt_250392.html
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