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Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.

Adam Michnik

America needed our help, and we had to give it.
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Country Giving Help Needed
Do you believe in free speech? Then speak freely. Do you love the truth? Then tell it.
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Believe Freely Question Speak Speech Tell Truth
Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Country Flag Link Lower Mourning Sure Thought War
After the fall of communism in Poland, we had a post-communist as president for two terms: Aleksander Kwasniewski. He was very good. He brought Poland into NATO and the European Union.
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Communism Communist Country Fall Judging Justice President Term
I think you can be an enemy of Saddam Hussein even if Donald Rumsfeld is also an enemy of Saddam Hussein.
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Enem Enemy Hussein Thinking
This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.
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Again Better never Say
They want a gradual coup. If Orbán stayed in power in Hungary or if Kaczynski were to win an election in our country, it would be dangerous.
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Country Coup Dangerous Election Gradual Hungary Orban Power
The main difference between the Prague Spring and the Velvet Revolution was that the former was mostly the work of Communist party members and others who wanted to bring about ‘socialism with a human face.’
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Communist Difference Face Former Human Main Member Party Prague Revolution Socialism Spring Velvet
Demagoguery and populism are rampant. We are the illegitimate children, the bastards of communism. It shaped our mentality.
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Bastard Children Communism Demagoguery Illegitimate Mentality Populism Shape
Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world – even if it is conservative and disagreeable – and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green.
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Black Color Democratic Equality Notion Reject World
France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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Accept Country Cowboy Culture Domination Longer Power Thinking World
Sometimes the type of person from the old machine, who is everything but an appealing figure, happens to win an election. But democracy applies to everyone, not just the noble and the clever.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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Different Ethics Politics World
We still have politicians who strive for a different type of country: Kaczynski as well as Orbán in Hungary.
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Country Different Hungary Man Politician Strive Type Winning
Do you believe in an open society? Then act in the open. Do you believe in a decent and humane society? Then behave decently and humanely.
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Act Believe Decently Humane Humanely Open Society
Start doing the things you think should be done, and start being what you think society should become.
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