The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTIt is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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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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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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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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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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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 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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