Have to say - I really liked this quote! Perhaps it's my Scotch-Irish-English-French DNA....
..."Still, the cause of the downtrodden Iranian people isn't hopeless. Historically, peasant revolts have often succeeded simply because there are so many peasants, and if you have enough farmers with torches and pitchforks, you can overcome even the King's knights."
This applies to so many dictatorial regimes throughout history, doesn't it?
THIS was a wise woman - beyond most mindsets, men/women.
AND I'm seeing, these days, more and more of her wisdom coming into clarity.
But then, she came from that world. We're just being introduced to it, drip/drip/drip. Now the puddles have formed. We need irrigation before there's a flood.
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