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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTTrump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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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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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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A spoonful of sugar can be as helpful in dealing with foreign diplomats as it is in child psychology, for these are not unrelated fields.
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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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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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Bill Clinton observed that when people are uncertain, they’d rather have leaders who are strong and wrong than right and weak.
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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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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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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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