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

Madeleine Albright

This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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Freedom Knowledge Politics Story
When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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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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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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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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In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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