Georgie Anne Geyer Quotes

United States, Journalist
April 2, 1935 – May, 15, 2019.

Georgie Anne Geyer was an American journalist who covered the world as a female foreign correspondent for the Chicago Daily News and then became a syndicated columnist for the Universal Press Syndicate. Her columns focused on foreign affairs issues and appeared in approximately 120 newspapers in North and South America. She was the author of ten books, including a biography of Fidel Castro and a memoir of her life as a foreign correspondent, Buying the Night Flight.

Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.

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- World
- Know
- Cared
I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

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- Women
- New
- Generation

It was when reporters became journalists and when objectivity gave way to searching for truth, that an aura of distrust and fear arose around the New Journalist.

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The more revolutions occur, the less things change.

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- Change
- Less
- Revolutions
An idea is growing in foreign policy circles in Washington ... that there is no turning back. We are stuck in Iraq and Afghanistan for 25 to 40 years, we are embedded in our prideful unilateralism, and nothing can return us to more traditional American values and principles of action. The hubristic creators of this "inevitability" planned it this way. ... Their failures in Iraq have not stopped the fanatic, power-hungry neoconservatives. ... The hard-liners who dominate this administration ... have led us to eternal conflict with Muslims.

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- Conflict
- Policy
- Muslims
The world's culture is changing, adapting. People are keeping what's good in a culture, and sweeping out the rest.

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- Culture
- Keeping
- Adapting
The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

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We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.

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