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
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.
If you think there's a bogeyman - turn on the light.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings...Fear [False Evidence Appearing Real] grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
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We picked out a modular home in Williamstown for free. We just have to provide the amount of money needed to get it from there to here,
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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.
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?
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.
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?
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
All great art ... creates in the beholder not self-satisfacti on but wonder and awe. Its great liberation is to lift us out of ourselves.