The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWhile 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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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