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Dorothy Celene Thompson (July 9, 1893 β January 30, 1961) 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 female news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. She was the second wife of Sinclair Lewis, from 1928 to 1942.
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βTo have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.β
βCan one preach at home inequality of races and nations and advocate abroad good-will towards all men?β
βAnti-semitism became equal to anti-Republicanism. And Hitler went to the peasants with a campaign of anti-capitalism.β
βUnity, in Fascist terms, means uniformity; freedom of conscience means insubordination; co-ordination means coercion.β
βHe was lofty and remote from all foreigners. Germany for the Germans. Scorn for Americans, the dollar-chasers, the money-grubbers, the profiteers.β
βAge 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.β
βIt does not matter how 'courageous' a writer may be. Courage becomes useless, for a courageous writer who is not published is not a writer at all.β
βThe Vatican newspaper in Rome, Osservatore Romano, said of National Socialism, 'It is the most inhumane of all heresies. Hitler is true to his role of anti-Christ.'β
βHaving first robbed the Jews, the Nazis are beginning to rob the Church, and later will almost certainly expropriate what is left of the bourgeoisie property.β
βIn these ten years urban Russia having destroyed, exiled, or reduced to the most abject misery all representatives of that previous civilization, is without most bourgeoisie amenities.β
βThe hotels are entirely run by the Moscow Soviet, which seems to have picked its employees rather for their political reliability than for their experience or cleverness at hotel management.β
βSomeday, when women realize that the object of their emancipation is not to make them more like men, but more powerfully womanly, and therefore of greater use to men and themselves and society.β
βMillions of Germans follow Hitler because he has proclaimed war upon the banks, upon the trusts, upon 'loan-capital.' He has asserted time and time again that he will abolish the rule of one class by another.β
βWilliam Penn summed up the ideal of human liberty in the remark: 'Men must either be governed by God or they must be ruled by tyrants.'β
βIndeed, gaiety is singularly lacking everywhere in Russia. What is intense and joyful goes into pioneer work and not into amusement. Only in the company of young communists and artists can one find stimulation.β
βOur children, it seems to me, learn the history of events, but are woefully unversed in the history of thought. [...] The result of this kind of teaching is to diminish all respect for intellect, reason and experience.β
βOnce in power, will he want to risk another French invasion? What, becomes, then, of his sonorous calls to arms? He will have to maintain law and order. What becomes then, of his promises to a revolutionary working class?β
βAnd now the beginning of the expropriation of church lands in Austria, have all revealed the true face of National Socialism, which more and more among pious Germans is called, under their breaths, 'the brown Bolshevism.'β
βThe people were to 'awaken' and Hitler's movement was going to vote dictatorship in! In itself a fascinating idea. Imagine a would-be dictator setting out to persuade a sovereign people to vote away their rights.β
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Dorothy Thompson on Nazism 2 quotes
βHaving first robbed the Jews, the Nazis are beginning to rob the Church, and later will almost certainly expropriate what is left of the bourgeoisie property.β
Dorothy Thompson on Fascism
β'''''Unity, in Fascist terms, means uniformity; freedom of conscience means insubordination; co-ordination'' means coercion.'''β
Dorothy Thompson on Moscow
βThe hotels are entirely run by the Moscow Soviet, which seems to have picked its employees rather for their political reliability than for their experience or cleverness at hotel management.β
Dorothy Thompson on Noblesse oblige
Dorothy Thompson on Democracy
βThe conception of man as a product of economics is the essence of the philosophy of Communism. The conception of man as a biological product, his destiny entirely determined by his racial chromosomes, is the essence of Nazism. The conception of man as a child of Godβthat is to say, as a soul capable or reason, capable of developing and perfecting himself in the image of the idealβis the basis of democracy.β
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Dorothy Thompson on Adolf Hitler
βFor Hitler first hatred was not Communism, but Austria-Hungary... And he loathed it for what? For its tolerance! He wanted eighty million Germans to rule with an iron hand an empire of eighty million 'inferiors'βCzechs, Slovaks, Magyars, Jews, Serbs, Poles and Croats.β
Dorothy Thompson on Sinclair Lewis
βWhat was once Sinclair Lewis is buried in no ground. Even in life he was fully alive only in his writing. He lives in public libraries from Maine to California, in worn copies in the bookshelves of women from small towns who, in their girlhood, imagined themselves as Carol Kennicotts, and of medical men who, as youths, were inspired by Martin Arrowsmith.β
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βMerely to ban the Communist Party as such would be useless. It would revive, as it did in Canada, under another name.β
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About Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Celene Thompson (July 9, 1893 β January 30, 1961) 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 female news commentators broadcasting on radio during the 1930s. She was the second wife of Sinclair Lewis, from 1928 to 1942.
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