The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. - Dorothy Thompson
Can one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men? - Dorothy Thompson
It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. - Dorothy Thompson
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 Thompson
Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. - 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. - 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. - Dorothy Thompson
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
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness. - 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. - Dorothy Thompson