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Gene Sharp: freedom is out of the bottle

Dictators will sleep better now that Gene Sharp has left. But as long as people are not afraid of dictatorships, dictators will be in big trouble. In memoriam.

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Protest at Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, on December 2, 2011. Burak Akbulut/ABACA/PA Images. All rights reserved.

Liberation from dictatorships ultimately depends on the people's ability to liberate themselves.”

- Gene Sharp, From Dictatorship to Democracy