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The seed of revolution is repression.

I feel like my work has been my path to freedom from having grown up in a segregated environment.

I lived in a dictatorship in Brazil, and I was arrested three times. I felt in my flesh what it is to live under such a regime and experience deprivation of freedom.

I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.

I am not a communist and neither is the revolutionary movement.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

I grew up in a dictatorship in East Africa.

I grew up in a socialist country. And I have seen what that does to people. There is no hope, no freedom. No pride in achievement.

Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.