The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGood 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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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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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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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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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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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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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 magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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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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