“Fear grows in darkness; if you think theres a bogeyman around, turn on the light.”

— Dorothy Thompson · Courage quote

“Fear grows in darkness; if you think theres a bogeyman around, turn on the light.”

— DOROTHY THOMPSON

American journalist · 1893 – 1961

Dorothy Thompson was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, one of the most influential women in American journalism in the 1930s. She was expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 for her reporting on Hitler.

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