Wael Ghonim quotes
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“The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.”
-- Wael GhonimSource : "Inside the Egyptian revolution". TED conference, www.ted.com. March 2011.
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“There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.”
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“Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly what happened. Revolution 2.0 in Egypt was exactly the same. Everyone is contributing small pieces, bits and pieces. We drew this whole picture of a revolution. And no one is the hero in that picture.”
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“No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.”
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“Khaled Said was a young man just like me, and what happened to him could have happened to me,”
-- Wael GhonimSource : Wael Ghonim (2012). “Revolution 2.0: The Power of the People is Greater Than the People in Power : a Memoir”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“If you want to liberate a government, give them the Internet.”
-- Wael Ghonim
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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“No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.”
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“Random political acts produce random political results. Why waste even a rock?”
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“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Source : Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.80, UPNE
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“Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.”
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