Peace has to be created, in order to be maintained. It will never be achieved by passivity and quietism. – Dorothy Thompson
The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. – 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
Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. – Dorothy Thompson
I feel that my fathers greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything. – Caroline Kennedy