It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThe voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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The voice and force of the United States may count for nothing if they are withheld too long.
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Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.
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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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If an advertiser can use that information to home in on a consumer because of his or her individual interests, what’s to stop a Fascist government from doing the same?
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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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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The complexity of immigration as an issue begins with a basic human trait: we are reluctant to share.
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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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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First of all, I don’t think fascism is an ideology. I think it is a method, it’s a system.
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