A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries.
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