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.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHTUntil I am carried out, I will carry on.
More Madeleine Albright Quotes
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Respect for the rights of others is a lofty principle; but envy is a primal urge (p114)
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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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Trump is the first anti-democratic president in modern U.S. history.
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I once experimented with meditation, cleared my mind, and immediately remembered a phone call I had to make; that was that.
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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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Well, the thing that I learned as a diplomat is that human relations ultimately make a huge difference.
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Among those welcoming Fascism and shouting Viva Mussolini that day were two hundred Jews.
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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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This is the first rule of deception: repeated often enough, almost any statement, story, or smear can start to sound plausible. The Internet should be an ally of freedom and a gateway to knowledge; in some cases, it is neither.
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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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Whatever the job you are asked to do at whatever level, do a good job because your reputation is your resume.
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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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There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
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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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The more extreme advocates from one side helped to validate the arguments of extremists on the other.
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