The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTThere are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Go for it, never back down, and don’t give in, because there’s no greater satisfaction in life than using your gifts to help others and to contribute to your community and country.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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For the DPRK and its military, the ouster of Saddam Hussein conveyed a powerful message: it’s not enough to pretend to have weapons of mass destruction. To be secure, a nation must build them, own them, and hide them.
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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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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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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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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Painful the grounds for resentment, the easier it is for a Fascist leader to gain followers by dangling the prospect of renewal or by vowing to take back what has been stolen.
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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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