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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.

Madeleine Albright

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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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  Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.

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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 am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference, I am an optimist who worries a lot.

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  Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.

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  There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.

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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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  I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person’s shoes.

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  The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.

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  Fascism, most of the students agreed, is an extreme form of authoritarian rule. Citizens are required to do exactly what leaders say they must do, nothing more, nothing less.

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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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  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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  The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.

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  There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.

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