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

Madeleine Albright

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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Eyes Freedom Lie Ourselves Powerful Stop Survive Wait Worst
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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Believe Myself Person Success Yourself
I do not believe that things happen accidentally; I believe you earn them.
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Believe Deserve Myself Yourself
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 real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT

Human Responsibility Right
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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Character Reputation Yourself
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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Government Herself Home
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself
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
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
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
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
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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Choice Deep Religion Yourself
The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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