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A dictatorship by any other name is still a dictatorship, whether its symbol is the czarist two-headed eagle or the hammer and sickle.

Madeleine Albright

Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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Human Principle Respect Right
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
This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Leadership Oppression Promise
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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Force Future Nation
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
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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Death Growth Mindset
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 voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Force Time Voice
Because of my parents’ love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia – first by Hitler and then by Stalin.
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Democracy Home Love Myself Parents
McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Fools People
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
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Democracy Government
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself

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