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And that regime that we got rid of was actually a dictatorship, an authoritarian regime, that for decades created a great sense of paralysis within the nation, within the people themselves.
My father made false papers for the dissidents against Franco in Spain, Salazar in Portugal, against the colonels' dictatorship in Greece, and even in France.
And when the colonial period ended, what you had in place of that was generally secular dictators, which say they're a country, but did not bring democracy to the country, and established their own dictatorship.
So in the 20th century, you had this vicious cycle in the Arab world, where you have a dictatorship suppressing its own people, including the Islamic pious, and they're reacting in reactionary ways.
In others, like mine, where there has been a long history of dictatorship in Nigeria, the fight is ongoing and we have a long way to go.
Steak, which stands for a Mubarak-Ben Ali type of military police dictatorship, or a potato, which stands for a Tehran type of theocracies.
If you look at the last 35 years and different social transitions, from dictatorship to democracy, you will see that, out of 67 different cases, in 50 of these cases it was nonviolent struggle which was the key power.
Every day, we read of shootings, inequality, pollution, dictatorship, war and the spread of nuclear weapons.
And dictatorship meant that all the land was owned by a single ruler or by a small oligarch.
And dictatorship meant that too many of the machines became concentrated in the hands of the government or of a small elite.
And dictatorship now means that too much data is being concentrated in the hands of the government or of a small elite.
So in theory, yes, in theory, you can rise against a corporation, just as, in theory, you can rise against a dictatorship.
They have shown an exemplary bravery in confronting the brutal dictatorship of Gaddafi.
We fought very hard against the dictatorship, in a moment it was necessary to us: Either go into clandestinity with weapons in hand, or leave Brazil.
Seven brutal years of dictatorship which we spent in exile.
It could enable brutal, global dictatorship with unprecedented inequality, surveillance and suffering, and maybe even human extinction.
Yes, 1917 led to 70 years of communist dictatorship.
The East Germans knew, of course, that they were surrounded by informers, in a totalitarian regime that created mistrust and a state of widespread fear, the most important tools to oppress people in any dictatorship.
Considering this, East Germany was a very modern dictatorship.
And power governs how any form of government operates, whether a democracy or a dictatorship.
We thought people would vote in defense of life, but in a country with a recent past of military dictatorship, the anti-government message of our opponents resonated, and we were not prepared to respond.
The students were 270 young men, expected to be the future leaders of the most isolated and brutal dictatorship in existence.
They cannot, for example, execute the queen and establish a republic of bees, or a communist dictatorship of worker bees.
Bonaparte was a ruler full of contradictions, defending a popular revolution by imposing absolute dictatorship, and spreading liberal ideals through imperial wars, and though he never achieved his dream of conquering Europe, he undoubtedly left his mark on it, for better or for worse.
They also cracked down hard on terrorism, but Indonesia's democrats have learned a key lesson from the dark years of dictatorship, namely that repression only creates more extremism.
And it turns out that the greatest predictor of a movement's decision to adopt nonviolence or violence is not whether that group is more left-wing or right-wing, not whether the group is more or less influenced by religious beliefs, not whether it's up against a democracy or a dictatorship, and not even the levels of repression that that group is facing.
But of course, life is hard under a military dictatorship, and so for now, this was the only way he could make a living.
If you look at the 20th century, so, the technologies of the Industrial Revolution, the trains and electricity and all that could be used to create a communist dictatorship or a fascist regime or a liberal democracy.
In a dictatorship, state power emerges from the threat of force, not the consent of the governed.
For example: What happens if you're called to cover a dictatorship, like Augusto Pinochet's regime in Chile or Fidel Castro's in Cuba?
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