The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTHistorian 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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This was how twentieth-century Fascism began: with a magnetic leader exploiting widespread dissatisfaction by promising all things.
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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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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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Decades ago, George Orwell suggested that the best one-word description of a Fascist was bully.
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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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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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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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The answer matters because, although nature abhors a vacuum, Fascism welcomes one.
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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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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 magic of America is that we’re a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.
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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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