Jail Sentence Quotes
This quotation is often incorrectly ascribed to Joseph Stalin whose approach to dissidents comported with Monteverde.
The madness of Nazism was getting established in Germany. One of the first thing that dictatorships do when they want to take total control is to hobble, censor, intimidate or eliminate the press. Thompson was one of the first jouralists to warn about Adolph Htler. She was expelled from Germany for her “unflattering” way of describing Hitler.
This is an amazingly intellectually advanced quotation. Herman Helcher, was a former pupil of hers who had become mentally deranged and tried to murder her and left her permanently injured. She not only argued against the jailing of a mentally ill person, but she recognized mental illness for what it is—a disease of the brain. This concept was not appreciated by most American politicians or constituents even into the 21st century.
