The obvious is not always so until it becomes so.

The revolutionaries often become the oppressors.

In some governments, where there is no free speech, I am breaking the law.

In simpler times, when people were stupid, I would've been a genius.

In foreign places, where people speak in different languages, I am the foreigner.

By the standards of certain cultures, what I have done to land my ass in jail would be considered heroic and honorable -

I still swear to this day that old Mr. Simmons who ran the town deli was evil incarnate.