The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTWages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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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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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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 complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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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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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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