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

Madeleine Albright

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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
To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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Mess One Liner Reality World
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
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
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
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
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Nature Philosophy Politics
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
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
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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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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Creation Difficult Effort Myself Need Team Thinking View
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
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
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People

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