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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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