Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game - you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures.

Usually when there's radical change, people see it as a zero-sum game — you're either a winner or a loser. They are polarizing figures ... and that generates fear and insecurity and an inability to empathize with the other side.

It's good to see people taking ownership over their city. Real change has always come from the people.

We are not here to interfere, but just to make recommendations and to offer the continuing services of The Carter Center. Our goal is to initiate a long-term process that will lead to inclusive governance and ultimately strengthen the deep tradition of democracy in Venezuela.

Right now I want a word that describes the feeling that you get--a cold sick feeling, deep down inside--when you know something is happening that will change you, and you don't want it to, but you can't stop it. And you know, for the first time, for the very first time, that there will now be a before and an after, a was and a will be. And that you will never again quite be the same person you were.

Rather,
it is the Egyptian people's unprecedented political
engagement and a burgeoning civic movement demanding sweeping
political
change.