Human rights Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

9 Human rights quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

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Roosevelt’s nine verses echo her lifelong commitment to dignity and freedom. The statements are concise yet uplifting, offering a quick source of motivation for anyone championing rights.

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I have cherished the ideal a democratic and free society . . . it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...

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The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.

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Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human…

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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life…

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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they…

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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to homeso close and so small that they cannot be…

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My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.

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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…

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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…

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When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next…

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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…

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“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…

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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the…

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Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

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Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose…

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We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind,…

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All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we…

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Some friends leave footprints in your heart

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If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a…

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