Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least act of injustice against the obscurest individual without having to pay the penalty for it.
Dorothy ThompsonA little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.
Dorothy ThompsonOnly when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.
Dorothy ThompsonAge 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 ThompsonThe 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 ThompsonCourage, 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.
Dorothy Thompson