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
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.
They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
Courage is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that th
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I don't know where we would be without our faith,
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There is nothing more demoralizing than sudden, overwhelming disillusionment
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.