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You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

Helen Thomas

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Helen Thomas
Age: 92 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 4
Died: 2013
Died: July 20
Author
Journalist
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Winchester
Kentucky
Helen Amelia Thomas
Without
People
Informed
Democracy
Cannot

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The United States has tried for years to live down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's order during World War II to move Japanese-Americans on the West Coast to inland detention camps on grounds that they might be disloyal.
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I don't think a tough question is disrespectful.
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If we lose our title of land of the free, what have we got?
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I'm a liberal, I was born a liberal, I'll be one 'til I die, what else should a reporter be when you see so much and when we have such great privilege and access to the truth?
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