The sister cities of Tyre and Sidon, Phoenicia by Sasha Beliaev
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"It is above all in the present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed...
-Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French political writer.
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