Arab spring Quote by Cat Stevens

“Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.” quote by Cat Stevens — Download Open image

“Muslims have been subjected to so many tyrants and oppressive regimes. That's what the Arab Spring was about, but the problem comes in trying to direct a revolution.”

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A person who steals bread during a famine is not treated as a thief.

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Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.

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There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.

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The first question that I ask : do I have public support or not. That is the first question that I asked as President. If I don't have the public support, whether there's the so-called "Arab spring" - it's not spring, anyway - but whether we have this or we don't, if you don't have public support, you have to…

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There is always the risk that a conflagration in the Middle East becomes larger and more dangerous. In this scenario, we discover that the…

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One of the themes of 'The Longest War,' my book, which came out before the Arab spring happened, was how al-Qaida and bin Laden was losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, not because the United States was winning them, but because al-Qaida was simply losing them.

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I don't think the Arab Spring had much to do with energy. I think it was just the opposite, in fact. I think the…

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I think Martin Luther King would always keep track of collective insurgencies among poor and working people. He was concerned about the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union, for example. He would have closely followed the Arab Spring. And certainly he would be very critical of the massive surveillance state that has emerged in America in the last five…

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