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
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. Anger is only one letter short of danger. If someone… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas — 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 Image
experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
