Too
much personal credit sought,
we
need to be more humble,
recognizing
the delay
our
own intransigence;
How
slow we were to act
to
give them assistance
to
give them comfort;
We
hold onto old allegiances
not
seeing tomorrow
When
they cried for Freedom
we
should have acted
we
must still learn that lesson
when
we are yet too timid;
When
we fritter away
the
peoples’ mandate;
When
we remember friends
when
they have brutalized their people
We
must turn, we must
live
by our statements
that
we should lift them up
when
they cry out for Freedom;
Our
is to speak,
to
not remain silent,
because
short-term expediency
does
not excuse inaction;
We
must be resolute, bold,
standing
with those yearning to breathe free
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edited January 13, 2016
When They Cried for Freedom –
v3
(editing version 2)
edited January 10, 2016
The People Shall be Free – v3
(editing original and version 2)
edited November 2, 2015
The People Shall be Free – v2
May 20, 2011
The People Shall be Free
edited
November 1, 2015
In a
More Perfect World – 3 – v3
(editing
version 2)
edited
May 30, 2014
In a
More Perfect World – 3 – v2
May
20, 2011
In a
More Perfect World - 3
edited November 1, 2015
When They Cried for Freedom -
v2
May 19, 2011
When They Cried for
Freedom
Speech
May 19, 2011 by United States President Barack Obama
on
the Arab Spring of 2011
and
how our country will chart a new course
holding
up the people more
and
not just focusing on our narrower
financial
and strategic interests
&
March 17, 2011
UN Security Council approval of sanctions against Libya
&
calling on President Obama and the world
to act in the Middle East, especially in Libya and
Bahrain,
to stand with the people
yearning to breathe free
and not worrying about the results,
that it is always right to stand for basic human rights
&
on
the transformations since the beginning of December -
all
the protests in Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Tunisia, Algeria, Libya, Syria,
Jordan,
Iran, Iraq, Palestinian Territories, Djibouti, Mauritania,
Senegal, etc.
and
especially
the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
February
11, 2011
&
and
the jubilance in Tahrir Square
versus
the bloodshed in Bahrain and Libya, etc.
February
18, 2011
&
hearing
claim by President Obama 2/15/2011
in a
news conference that when history books tell it
we
will be seen as being on the right side of history
in
how the United States responded
&
Post
on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“Our
Revolution was like Wikipedia”
February
14, 2011
&
Post
on Twitter by Wael Ghonim
“This is Revolution 2.0: No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.”
February
13, 2011
and
see
A Prayer for the People of Egypt (February 3, 2011)
by
Safiyah Fosua
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