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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.

Madeleine Albright

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
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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Democracy Fight Freedom People Scare World
Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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Best Word
There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
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Choice Deep Religion Yourself
Especially when we are afraid, angry, or confused, we may be tempted to give away bits of our freedom—or, less painfully, somebody else’s freedom—in the quest for direction and order.
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Afraid Angry Direction Freedom Ourselves Pain
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
The People Power movement that in 1986 foiled Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos’s effort to steal a snap presidential election.
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Effort Election People Power
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
Falsehood flies, observed Jonathan Swift, and the truth comes limping after it.
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Philosophy Truth
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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Confidence Expectation Funny Job Myself Reading Time Writing
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
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
The Fascist game plan: a single party, speaking with one voice, controlling every state institution, claiming to represent all people, and labeling the entire sham a triumph of the popular will.
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Game Oneself People Plan Voice Willing
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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Government Herself Home
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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Community Greatness Life Satisfaction
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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Desire Determination Goodness Human Liberty Lose Man Potential Price Win

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