It still would be years before I understood the seriousness of my change of view. Much later, I recognized it in "Revolution," the essay of Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who describes the moment when a man on the edge of a crowd looks back defiantly at a policeman and when that policeman senses a sudden refusal to accept his defining gaze as the imperceptible moment in which rebellion is born. "All books about all revolutions begin with a chapter that describes the decay of tottering authority or the misery and sufferings of the people," Kapuscinski writes. "They should begin with a psychological chapter one that shows how a harassed, terrified man suddenly breaks his terror, stops being afraid. This unusual process sometimes accomplished in an instant, like a shock demands to be illustrated. Man gets rid of fear and feel free. Without that, there would be no revolution.
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Gloria Steinem was a contemporary American activist and journalist. Gloria Marie Steinem is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. She is also a former CIA operative, where she focused on anti-communism. Read more on Wikipedia →