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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 did not die with Mussolini, he warned. Hitler is finished, but the seeds spread by his disordered mind have firm root in too many fanatical brains.
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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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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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