A Quote by Mohammed Morsi
I am the first Egyptian civilian president elected democratically, freely, following a great, peaceful revolution.
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Trump is the freely elected president of the U.S. and as such deserves respect.
We must not expect a full-scale peaceful revolution every time a Labour Government is elected.
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President Kennedy said that those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable. I would say that the converse is true.
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