Cairo My City Our Revolution

“Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” -Thomas Paine
The only way that people are able to earn their rights is to help fight for it and take the pain as shown many times in the past. Some events when the idea that freedom needs to be fought for are in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream”, Ahdaf Soueif’s “Cairo:My City, Our Revolution”, and in Persepolis 2 by Martane Setrapi. For all of these examples, they were never given the rights from the beginning but they had to work towards and fight to earn their way to it. In order for all people to have equal rights and freedoms, it must be physically or secretly demanded by breaking small rules to rebel the government, giving speeches and making movements, and and working together to get their point across. In Iran, Marjane Satrapi writes about her experience with the secret demanding of equal …show more content…
This is telling how Cairo had to demand freedom from the leader to make police brutality stop. The people of Cairo were very powerful in their fight. “. . .we were doing what Egyptians do best, and what the regime ruling us had tried so hard to destroy: we had come together, as individuals, millions of us, in a great cooperative effort.” (75). When Cairo got their new leader, police officers were allowed to beat people and the Egyptians needed to work as one together and use their force to stop this. They needed to go against the ruler even as the government struggles to stop them from demanding that the violence needs to be stopped. The people want the right to not be abused when they have not earned it. The people of Egypt work together to fight, to demand their rights. They physically used all of their power and force to go against their rulers and gain their way towards happiness and equality to the