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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.

Madeleine Albright

Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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Enough Man Myself Oppression Time Woman
In 2016, Fascism was searched on the Merriam-Webster dictionary website more often than any other word in English except surreal, which experienced a sudden spike after the November presidential election.
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Election Experience Search Word
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
Wages, in real terms, have been stagnant since the 1970s.
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Money Reality
As a leader, you have to have the ability to assimilate new information and understand that there might be a different view.
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Ability Different Leadership Understand View
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
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Democracy Government
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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Name Oppression Rule
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
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Ability Change Choice People
Repeat a lie often enough and it begins to sound as if it must—or at least might—be so.
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Beginning Enough Lie
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
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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Ideas Myself Thinking
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
The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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Human Moral Responsibility Right Virtue
Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Motivational Problem Understand Yourself
The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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Argument Help Oneself

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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