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
A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear, a disastrous circle.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.
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.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.
Recreation is nothing but a change of work-an occupation for the hands by those who live by their brains, or for the brains by those who live by their hands.
After the earthquake and the fire comes the still, small voice.
Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?
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.
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.
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
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?