At the cycling competition held in Shahsavar, the men refused to stand on the winners’ podium because the women’s event had been cancelled.

This awareness and continuity of civil resistance are the key to the victory of life and freedom.

Benjamin Franklin, a thinker and one of the central figures of the American Revolution in the eighteenth century, is attributed here with writing about the victory of justice:

Until that part of the population against whom injustice has not been committed becomes as offended and angry as those who have suffered the injustice, and refuses to accept it, justice will not be established in that society.

Aydin Areta