Newspaperperson

🇺🇸Ida B. Wells

Education

1862–1931

"The government which had made the Negro a citizen found itself unable to protect him. It gave him the right to vote, but denied him the protection which should have maintained that right."

🇺🇸Ellen Goodman

Journalism

b. 1941

"We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness."

🇺🇸Dorothy Thompson

Journalism

1893–1961

"The 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."

🇺🇸Margaret Fuller

Journalism

Transcendentalism

1810–1850

"To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it, seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph, mere stops."