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So I would like to speak a little bit about the phenomenon which is behind what already seems to be the very bad year for bad guys, and this phenomenon is called people power.
所以我想談一談這一年 惡霸不斷倒臺背后的現象，這個現象就是人民的力量。
Well, people power has been there for a while.
人民的力量并不是什么新生現象。
It helped Gandhi kick the Brits from India.
它幫助甘地把英國人趕出印度。
It helped Martin Luther King win a historic racial struggle.
它幫助馬丁·路德·金贏得了一場歷史性的種族斗爭。
It helped local Lech Walesa to kick out one million Soviet troops from Poland and beginning the end of the Soviet Union as we know it.
它幫助波蘭的萊赫·瓦文薩將一百萬蘇聯軍隊趕出波蘭啟動了蘇聯的解體。
So what's new in it? What seems to be very new,
現在的人民力量新在何處呢？
which is the idea I would like to share with you today,
我今天就想談一談這個問題，
that there is a set of rules and skills which can be learned and taught in order to perform successful nonviolent struggle.
要進行成功的非暴力斗爭，我們需要一系列可學習可傳授的規則和技能。
If this is true, we can help these movements.
如果事實如此，我們可以協助此類運動的開展。
Well, first one, analytic skills.
第一，分析能力。
I'll try where it all started in the Middle East,
請讓我從這一切的源頭中東地區說起，
and for so many years we were living with completely the wrong perception of the Middle East.
多年來，我們對中東地區的印象一直有失偏頗。
It was looking like the frozen region, literally a refrigerator,
我們認為中東好像一個被冷凍的區域，一個冰箱，
and there are only two types of meals there:
而且里面只有兩種食物：
steak, which stands for a Mubarak, Ben Ali-type of military police dictatorship, or a potato,
一種是牛排，代表穆巴拉克、本·阿里這種軍事獨裁統治，另外一種是土豆，
which stands for Tehran types of theocracies.
也就是以伊朗德黑蘭政權為代表的神權政體。
And everybody was amazed when the refrigerator opened and millions of young, mainly secular people step out to do the change. Guess what? They didn't watch the demographics.
因此當冰箱打開，成千上萬的年輕人，其中大部分擁有著平凡的價值觀，走上街頭呼吁變革的時候很多人非常驚訝。知道為什么嗎？他們沒有關注中東的人口統計特征。
What is the average age of Egyptians? 24.
埃及的平均年齡是多少？24歲。
How long was Mubarak in power? 31.
穆巴拉克在位多少年了？31年。
So this system: just obsolete. They expired,
所以這樣的統治系統已經過時。應該退休了。
and young people of the Arab World have awakened one morning and understood that power lies in their hands.
而阿拉伯世界的年輕人某一天早上醒來突然意識到力量就在自己手中。
