We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government... — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
To be mature you have to realize what you value most... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
“One of the things I believe most intensely is that every child’s why should be answered with care—and with respect. If you do not… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share