Despite their stunning presence and performance in street politics, the extraordinary youth — and for that matter any other social group or class — on their own can never create a political breakthrough. The breakthrough comes only when ordinary people from diverse social groups — including women, men, the elderly, children, grandmothers, traditional or modern constituencies — become present in the streets and backstreets of the uprisings. Here, the “street” becomes the contentious space of the social mainstream calling for political transformation. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that it is often these very young women and men who initiate protests. They are the ones who inject new blood into the body of a movement in times of silence and despair, providing energy and new life for a movement to live and carry on.