Peace is not a spectator sport.
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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The real question is: who has the responsibility to uphold human rights? The answer to that is: everyone.
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I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life.
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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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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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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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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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McCarthy fooled as many as he did because a lot of people shared his anxieties.
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Until I am carried out, I will carry on.
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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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It is easier to remove tyrants and destroy concentration camps than to kill the ideas that gave them birth.
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I think that a president needs to have a variety of views presented. But also, there has to be a team effort, because otherwise, I think it creates a dissonance and difficulty.
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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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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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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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