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The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.

Madeleine Albright

The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Hide Leadership Leaving
Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
Fascism did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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Death Growth Mindset
The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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Beginning Human Issue
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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Act Faith Life Myself Success
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
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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Compassionate Human Oneself World
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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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Leadership Oppression Promise
The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Force Time Voice
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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Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
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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Ability Different Leadership Understand View

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