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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.

Madeleine Albright

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
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
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 Women Empowerment
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
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
Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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People Race
The greatest thrill in my life was to represent the United States of America.
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Greatness Life Myself
When, at a party, a woman (half socialite, half journalist) told me how brave she thought I had been for not getting a facelift, I was tempted to comment on the courage she had shown in dealing with the results of hers.
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Brave Courage Dealing Herself Make Up Result Talk Woman
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
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Determination Idea People
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
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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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Born Connection Destroy Easy Ideas Kill
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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What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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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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