A Good Speech, And Simple

And the most important words, in such times, were these:

This is the power of human dignity, and it can never be denied. Egyptians have inspired us, and they've done so by putting the lie to the idea that justice is best gained through violence. For in Egypt it was the moral force of nonviolence, not terrorism, not mindless killing, but nonviolence, moral force that bent the arc of history toward justice once more.

Perhaps, too, the message to the Egyptian military will be heard in other despotic places:

We saw a military that would not fire bullets at the people they were sworn to protect.

We can hope those who would give support to terrorists, because they felt they had no other option, will have heard it all, that they, too, might change history.