All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women,… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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
If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word.… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable… — 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
All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long… — 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… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this;… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his… — 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
