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"None of us dared to go forward to help the injured as they writhed. … I was cowering behind a layer of other people whom I hoped would absorb bullets; the notebook in my hand was stained with perspiration from fear. … Finally, some unlikely saviors emerged - the rickshaw drivers."

Nicholas D. Kristof, on witnessing the Tiananmen Square massacre, 20 years ago. From his New York Times op-ed, “Bullets Over Beijing” (June 3, 2009).