What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
As Ethiopia goes, so goes the whole Horn of Africa - a region where instability can have major security and humanitarian implications for the United States and Europe.
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will overwhelm Ethiopia.
As a prisoner of conscience committed to peaceful transition to democracy, I urge Europe to apply economic sanctions against Ethiopia. What short-term pain may result will be compensated by long-term gain. A pledge to re-engage energetically with a democratic Ethiopia would act as a catalyst for reform.
We live in an age of global expectations. Our hopes have converged in many ways, none more so than in our democratic aspirations.
All the great crimes of history, lest we forget, have their genesis in the moral wilderness of their times.
In order to lead people, you have to get to know them.
Fear is the genesis of most of the good things that have occurred in my life. Fear is the beginning of every success I've lived.
The world is what you think it is
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