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

Madeleine Albright

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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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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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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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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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.
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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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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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Though I had never written a memoir, I was confident that given enough time, I could do a serviceable job. Not elegant, but blunt, informative and funnier than most readers would expect.
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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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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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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