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Madeleine Albright

Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
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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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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Emotional Hate Policy
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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Myself Peace People Reading Thinking War Worry
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
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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Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win
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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Development Myself Quite Silence Time Voice Women Empowerment
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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Determination Idea People
Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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Easy Leadership Pain
I really do think about the fact that every day counts. I believe that every individual counts, and so I believe that every day counts and I try not to waste it.
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Believe Myself Thinking Wasted Time
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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Election Experience Search Word
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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Name Oppression Rule
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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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics

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