Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWe will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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The 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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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.
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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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