Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompsonwas an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt. She is notable as the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and as one of the few women news commentators on radio during the 1930s. She is regarded by some as the "First Lady of American Journalism."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth9 July 1893
CountryUnited States of America
When a sixth of the population of a nation which has undertaken to be the refuge of liberty are slaves, and a whole country [Mexico] is unjustly overrun and conquered by a foreign army, and subjected to military law, I think that it is not too soon for honest men to rebel and revolutionize. What makes this duty the more urgent is the fact that the country so overrun is not our own, but ours is the invading army.
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.
The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.
Lawlessness is a self-perpetuating, ever-expanding habit.
If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light.
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
The prices are ridiculous... I don't see how people can go back and forth to work or to school. How can we afford the gas?
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.
The United States is not a nation of people which in the long run allows itself to be pushed around.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.