Top 10 most inspiring quotes by Dorothy Thompson
- 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.
- 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?
- 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.
- It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
- Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
- 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 only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
- When liberty is taken away by force, it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished by default it can never be recovered.
- The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Dorothy Thompson (1893-1961) was a prominent American journalist and writer known for her influential career in the first half of the 20th century. Born in Lancaster, New York, she attended Syracuse University and later became one of the first women to earn a master’s degree in political science from the University of Munich in Germany.
Thompson’s journalism career began in the United States, but it was her reporting from Europe during the interwar years that brought her international recognition. She served as a foreign correspondent for the New York Post and later the New York Herald Tribune, providing insightful analysis and eyewitness accounts of major events, including the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime in Germany.
Thompson was a staunch critic of Hitler and Nazism, and her reporting played a crucial role in shaping American public opinion against the fascist regime. Her work earned her the title of the “First Lady of American Journalism” and made her a household name.
In addition to her journalism, Dorothy Thompson authored several books, including “I Saw Hitler!” (1932) and “Let the Record Speak” (1939). She continued her journalistic and writing career throughout her life, leaving a lasting legacy as a trailblazing female journalist and a powerful voice against tyranny and fascism.
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