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Helen Foster Snow

(1907–1997) Journalist

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Helen Foster Snow was a journalist.

Quick Facts About Helen Foster Snow

Born: September 21, 1907
Died: January 11, 1997
Profession: Journalist

About Helen Foster Snow

[Wikidata] American journalist (1907–1997)... | [Wikipedia] Helen Foster Snow was an American journalist who reported from China in the 1930s under the name Nym Wales on the developing Chinese Civil War, the Korean independence movement and the Second Sino-Japanese War.

Quotes by Helen Foster Snow

... one can judge a civilization by the way its treats its women.

Helen Foster Snow

Civilization

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The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is…

Helen Foster Snow

Art

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Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

Helen Foster Snow

Children

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history, like nature, has its own economy, its own balancing of forces in the final accounting. Nothing can be lost, except to…

Helen Foster Snow

Accounting

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To be a Marxist does not mean that one becomes a Communist party member. There are as many varieties of Marxists as…

Helen Foster Snow

Communism

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Freedom to think requires not only freedom of expression but also freedom from the threat of orthodoxy and being outcast and ostracized.

Helen Foster Snow

Conformity

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The essence of all religion is to be willing to risk your life for a belief - not for survival.

Helen Foster Snow

Belief

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