The courage and wisdom of children

The courage and wisdom of children

Eric Stoner

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Copy and paste the following into your page to republish: <h1>The courage and wisdom of children</h1> <p><a href="https://wagingnonviolence.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/IMG_5862.jpg"></a></p> <p>Journalist and photographer Matthew Cassel took this powerful <a href="http://justimage.org/blog/2011/01/31/revolution-today/" target="_blank">picture</a> of a 4-year old girl leading chants at the protest in Tahrir Square in Cairo today.</p> <p>And this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn1faq0iwRw" target="_blank">message</a> from eight-year old girl in Saudi Arabia to Egyptian President Mubarak reveals a wisdom far beyond her years:</p> <p><object width="570" height="348" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="src" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/fn1faq0iwRw?version=3" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed width="570" height="348" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/fn1faq0iwRw?version=3" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" /></object></p> <img src="https://wagingnonviolence.matomo.cloud/matomo.php?idsite=1&rec=1&action_name=REPUBLISHED%20The+courage+and+wisdom+of+children&bots=1" style="border:0" alt="" />