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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)

Madeleine Albright

Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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Democracy History Oppression Politics
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
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
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
To reduce the sum of our existence to a competitive struggle for advantage among more than two hundred nations is not clear-eyed but myopic. People and nations compete, but that is not all that they do.
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Existence Nation Ourselves People Struggle
I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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Mindset Myself Phone Remember
Peace is not a spectator sport.
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One Liner Peace
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
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Responsibility Right
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
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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Authority Citizenship Control Leadership Oppression Rule Student
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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Leadership People Right Strong Weakness Wrong
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
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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Oneself Purpose

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