While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTI 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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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 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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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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The temptation is powerful to close our eyes and wait for the worst to pass, but history tells us that for freedom to survive, it must be defended and that if lies are to stop, they must be exposed.
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