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Dorothy Thompson

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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 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 Thompson


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The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.


— Dorothy Thompson


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Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?


— Dorothy Thompson


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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 Thompson


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Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.


— Dorothy Thompson


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Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.


— Dorothy Thompson


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To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.


— Dorothy Thompson


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The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.


— Dorothy Thompson


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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 Thompson


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Did you know about Dorothy Thompson?

The couple divorced in 1942. Worse things can happen. It was read by over ten million people and carried by more than 170 papers.

Many fondly referred to her as the “First Lady of American Journalism. Thompson married Sinclair Lewis in 1928 and acquired a house in Vermont.

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