The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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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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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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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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Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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