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
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About Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Celene Thompson was 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 Wo…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Dorothy ThompsonPeace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism.
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.
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld.
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.