Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. - Margaret Mead
Egypt today is a country of sugar shortages, a plummeting pound, a crackdown on activists and journalists, and security breaches. Too many will argue that the most populous Arab country is worse off today than it was before January 25, 2011, that fateful day when Egypt's totalitarian ruler Hosni Mubarak was forced out of power by massive country-wide protests.
While that may be true, the rest of us Arabs are hard-pressed to imagine a world without that day.
The odds were stacked against the Egyptian people, and they have not yet seen the fruit of their bravery. Still, we salute them. At the height of their fight for democracy, we sat glued to our television sets, feeling moved to our core.
Egypt shook the parameters of what we believed to be possible, and these 15 tweets serve to remind us that ...
1. It takes courage to mock your public servant
2. The smallest voices didn't look so small
3. A bridge between despair and hope can be built
4. Women sacrificed their lives for the cause
5. And so did many others
6. Tahrir (Liberation) Square once roared with dissent
7. Small victories were made possible
8. Egypt had many Tiannamen squares
9. Courage, conviction, rage, hope all existed in one frame
10. It takes one man to spark a revolution ... Khaled Saeed
11. "The sense of possibility was real."
12. Flags faced water cannons
13. Egyptian humor prevailed
