The magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTGo 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.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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How can one be bored in a world where a billion examples of human ingenuity, peculiarity, pigheadedness, and compassion are on regular view?
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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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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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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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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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To put it mildly, the world is a mess.
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We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
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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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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A Fascist who launches his career by being voted into office will have a claim to legitimacy that others do not.
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The main thing is to remain oneself, under any circumstances; that was and is our common purpose.
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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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Historian Robert Paxton begins one of his books by asserting: Fascism was the major political innovation of the twentieth century, and the source of much of its pain.
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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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