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What Is Dictatorship?

        Dictatorship is a lot of things, for example it is the abuse of one’s power or authority, or it can be the denial of the others’ rights. Dictators can be different people, not just corrupt presidents or kings; if your boss was unfair he’s a dictator, if your teacher was unfair he’s a dictator too, even your own father could be a dictator. You have the right to stand up to that person, no matter who he or she is, because if you don’t that means you handed him your rights on a plat of gold. What the new generation of Egyptians did is that they broke the borders of tradition, and the long wait; whenever an Egyptian was broken down by his regime he said wait or ‘usbur’ tomorrow will be better. The older generation is to blame for all of this, because they didn’t stand up 52 years ago and say no to corruption and instead they said the famous ‘wait’. We will always learn lessons from Egypt, and the Egyptian revolution could not deserve less respect than any other revolution in the world if not even more.