"We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."

Change, Pregnancy, Woman

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"We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were."

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"I believe society has a right to defend itself, just as the individual has the right to attack that with which he disagrees."

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