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Dorothy Thompson: “It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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Dorothy Thompson: “Disillusion comes only to the illusioned. One cannot be disillusioned of what one never put faith in.
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Dorothy Thompson: “The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat.
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Dorothy Thompson: “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.
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Dorothy Thompson: “There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
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Dorothy Thompson: “Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
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Dorothy Thompson: “The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
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Dorothy Thompson: “Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
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Dorothy Thompson: “Courage, it would seem, is nothing less than the power to overcome danger, misfortune, fear, injustice, while continuing to affirm inwardly that life with all its sorrows is good; that everything is meaningful even if in a sense beyond our understanding; and that there is always tomorrow.
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Dorothy Thompson: “Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It is the product of Faith, Strength, Energy, Will, Sympathy, Justice, Imagination, and the triumph of principle. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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Dorothy Thompson: “They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war -- as though the absence of war was the same as peace.
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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.
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Dorothy Thompson: “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.
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Dorothy Thompson: “The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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Dorothy Thompson: “It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.
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Dorothy Thompson: “A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
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Dorothy Thompson: “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.
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