Democracy is not tested by how a government celebrates its power, but by the way it treats its citizens who questions it. When citizens take to the streets demanding accountability and the response is intimidation from government's part, then something deeper than protest is at stake. Power is temporary, but the values we uphold while wielding it define our place in the history. It is never the power that makes a ruler great, but the courage to use it with humility and responsibility.
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