L. Neil Smith
American writer
Dorothy Thompson
American journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
Dorothy Celene Thompsonwas an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s.
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Dorothy Celene Thompsonwas an American journalist and radio broadcaster. She was the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 and was one of the few women news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. Thompson is regarded by some as the “First Lady of American Journalism” and was recognized by Time magazine in 1939 as equal in influence to Eleanor Roosevelt. Recordings of her NBC Radio commentary and analysis of the European situation and the start of World War IIwere selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry in 2023, based on their “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage.”
14 Quotes by Dorothy Thompson
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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.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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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.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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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.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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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.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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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?
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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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?
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)
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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
Dorothy ThompsonAmerican journalist and radio broadcaster (1893-1961)