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Why Arresting Protesters Reflects Fragile Power, Not Strength or Security

Even the most brutal systems of oppression have failed to suppress the human will for freedom of expression in its various forms. From the transatlantic slave trade to apartheid in South Africa, from colonial rule across Africa to the Arab Spring, every era or form of control and oppression gave rise to rebellious resistance. The Haitian Revolution of 1791, the fall of Apartheid, the end of colonialism all crumbled because the people will not accept domination. Even the worst brutal repression cannot suppress the demand for freedom, for justice. More in this opinion piece.

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