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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.

Madeleine Albright

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
Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics
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
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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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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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The conservatives saw the Fascist leader as someone they could hide behind, manipulate, and, when convenient, replace.
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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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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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Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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I also think it is important for women to help one another. I have a saying: There is a special place in hell for women who don’t.

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