As the decade closes, power of protest endures, wins important fights

If we are back where we started the decade, we know the task, we have the tools - and like the protesters, we know the value of sticking to it

For those who believe the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice, the past 10 years have been a reminder that it is also long.

Indeed, as we mark the final Human Rights Day of this decade, we are ending the way we began — in the streets. In Hong Kong, Nicaragua, in Algeria, Sudan, Lebanon, Iran, and elsewhere, people have been on the march, facing bullets, beatings, and prison to demand an end to repressive and unaccountable government, to reject corrupt elites, and secure their rights.

Are they naïve? Or do they know something important and powerful? 

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