Wael Ghonim

“Mubarak was so paranoid that anyone he perceived as competent became a threat to him.”

“The Egyptian revolution will remain indebted to everyone who tossed a stone into the still waters at a time when doing so risked beating, and arrest, or worse.”

“The regime's policies, whether intentionally or unintentionally, had engendered a sharp divide between Muslims and Christians, in spite of the fact that generations of Muslims and Coptic Christians had lived together peacefully in the past. The regime was good at utilizing this divide to create a perception that without Mubarak in power, Egyptians would break out into sectarian warfare. As a result, Mubarak managed to market his police state successfully to the international community as the lesser of two evils.”

“our collective participation on the Jan25 is the beginning of the end-- the end of silence, acceptance, and submission to all that is happening in our country, and the beginning of a new page of coming forward and demanding our rights. Jan25 is not a revolution in the sense of a coup, but rather a revolution against our government to let them know that we have taken interest in one another's problems and that we shall reclaim all our rights and will not be silent anymore.”

“I stressed that I did not want to be treated like a hero. I was only one member of the revolutionary masses who had fulfilled his duty towards his country. It was easy to write, rant, and mobilize people using the internet. The real heroes of this revolution were the people who had died and been injured.”

“The revolution has no leader, I said. It was more like a raging wild horse that would buck anyone who tried to mount it against its will.”

“أتذكر ما قالته لى فى تلك الأثناء "لقد سألت بعض أصدقائى عبر الإنترنت عن القاهرة فأخبرونى أن القاهرة شوارعها قذرة !" .. قلت لها "لن أنكر أن شوارع القاهرة بعضها قذرة .. ولكن قلوب أهلها نظيفة”