Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThis was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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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.
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To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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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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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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