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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.

Madeleine Albright

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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Book Himself Innovation Oneself Pain Politics
Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
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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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
Good guys don’t always win, especially when they are divided and less determined than their adversaries. The desire for liberty may be ingrained in every human breast, but so is the potential for complacency, confusion, and cowardice. And losing has a price.
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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
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
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
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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Development Myself Quite Silence Time Voice Women Empowerment
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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Force Future Nation
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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Career Himself Vote
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Difference Human Learning Myself Relationship
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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Determination Idea People
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
Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction

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