Authoritarianism
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Foro Penal Y RFK Human Rights Urgen a La Liberación Inmediata De Defensor De Derechos Humanos Y Activista Democrático en Venezuela
El 6 de diciembre de 2023, el Servicio Bolivariano de Inteligencia Nacional (SEBIN) detuvo arbitrariamente a Roberto Abdul-Hadi, defensor de derechos humanos y presidente de la ONG venezolana Súmate.
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Foro Penal And RFK Human Rights Call For The Immediate Release Of Human Rights Defender And Pro-Democracy Activist In Venezuela
Tags Share On December 6th, 2023, the National Intelligence Bolivarian Service (SEBIN for its initials in Spanish) arbitrarily detained Roberto Abdul-Hadi, a human rights defender and the President of the Venezuelan NGO Súmate. Abdul Hadi’s arrest was confirmed by his wife and reported to Foro Penal’s President Alfredo Romero, who disclosed that SEBIN agents detained…
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change the world which yields most painfully to…
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls…
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
I believe that, as long as a single man may try, any unjustifiable barrier against his efforts is a barrier against mankind. A government that can destroy such a barrier without erecting any others in the process is a good force. A government too weak for that is not only a waste but an evil…
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Speech in Chicago
Far too often, for narrow, tactical reasons, this country has associated itself with tyrannical and unpopular regimes that had no following and
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Speech delivered at the 10th Anniversary Convocation for the Center for Study of Democratic Institutions of the Fund for the Republic, New York City
If our Constitution had followed the style of Saint Paul, the First Amendment might have concluded—”But the greatest of these is speech.” In the darkness of tyranny, this is the key to the sunlight. If it is granted, all doors open. If it is withheld, none.
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Senate Speech
Economic assistance is no magic cure; it will not abolish dictatorship, nor automatically remove oppression, and injustice; and given unwisely, it can even bolster the forces of reaction and hamper progress. But an adequate program of assistance can help to prevent oppression, can at least right the basic injustices of starvation and ignorance and degradation…
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Speech in Chicago
Marx’s condemnation of the heartless laissez-faire capitalism of the early nineteenth century now, by an irony of history, applies with fantastic precision to twentieth century Communi
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Address at the Day of Affirmation at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
I am unilaterally opposed to Communism because it exalts the state over the individual and the family, and because of the lack of freedom of speech, of protest, of religion and of the press, which is the characteristic of totalitarian states.
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Address to the American Jewish Congress, New York City
The tyranny of Communism is as old as the Pharaohs and the Pyramids—that the state stands above all men and their individual aspirations. And this is why we oppose it, because by force and subversion it seeks to impose its tyranny all around the world.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
I think that the Communist party as a political organization is of no danger to the United States.
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