Hopeful Thinking: Tyranny withers in the light of courage

Hopeful Thinking: Tyranny withers in the light of courage

Tyranny rarely announces its own ending. It declares permanence. It claims inevitability. Every regime built on fear insists that resistance is futile, that power flows only from weapons, wealth or divine right. And yet history tells a quieter, more-persistent story: again and again, ordinary people — armed not with armies but with conscience — have undone what once seemed immovable. Protest movements work, not because they shout louder than tyr…