To see an entire populace rise up against injustice, autocracy and the armed lackeys of a corrupt police state reminds me of what real courage looks like, especially when it's bolstered by the adrenaline of outrage and moral authority.
In the last few years, with tensions between Muslims and the rest of the French populace rising, Charlie Hebdo has continued pushing the envelope one 2013 issue, titled "Life of Muhammad," reportedly led to a bookseller being threatened by young Muslim men when he displayed it in his window.
So far in the U.S., we've seen a dangerously misinformed and active segment of our Caucasian populace rise up under the Tea Party banner, plus a promising (and more broadly-based) Occupy movement that seemingly fizzled out without changing much of the status quo at all.
Across the Arab world, the populace is rising up to demand some say in their own lives.
In Venezuela's case, expectation levels among the general populace have risen in accordance with oil revenue generation.
On the morning of the 14th, Republicans stirred the populace to rise against the Bracceschi, led by Antonio Trivulzio, Giorgio Lampugnano, Innocenzo Cotta, and Teodoro Bossi, members of the College of Jurisprudence.
The President also warned what could happen if the populace failed to rise to the challenge.
As he pointed out, powerful social change doesn't produce a placated populace; it produces rising expectations that demand more social change.
The decades after the war saw a political awakening amongst the local populace and the rise of anti-colonial and nationalist sentiments, epitomized by the slogan Merdeka, or "independence" in the Malay language.
Lately, the Connecticut populace seems to be rising as one to complain about traffic speeds.
