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A Number Of People Still Think Of The United States As Being Overwhelmingly English, Protestant, And White. This Erroneous Idea Influences Their Whole Outlook.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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A Number Of People Still Think Of The United States As Being Overwhelmingly English, Protestant, And White. This Erroneous Idea Influences Their Whole Outlook.

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If You Can Develop This Ability To See What You Look At, To Understand Its Meaning, To Readjust Your Knowledge To This New Information, You Can Continue To Learn And To Grow As Long As You Live And You’ll Have A Wonderful Time Doing It.

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The Leisure Class Is One In Which Individuals Have Sufficient Economic Security And Sufficient Leisure To Find Opportunity For A Variety Of Satisfactions In Life.

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The Will Of The People Shall Be The Basis Of The Authority Of Government.

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Anyone Who Thinks Must Think Of The Next War As They Would Of Suicide.

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Usefulness, Whatever Form It May Take, Is The Price We Should Pay For The Air We Breathe And The Food We Eat And The Privilege Of Being Alive.

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...so Much Attention Is Paid To The Aggressive Sins, Such As Violence And Cruelty, And Greed With All Their Tragic Effects, That Too Little Attention Is Paid To The Passive Sins, Such As Apathy And Laziness, Which In The Long Run Can Have A More Devastating And Destructive Effect Upon Society Than The Others.

About The Only Value The Story Of My Life May Have Is To Show That One Can, Even Without Any Particular Gifts, Overcome Obstacles That Seem Insurmountable If One Is Willing To Face The Fact That They Must Be Overcome.

Someone Once Asked Me What I Regarded As The Three Most Important Requirements For Happiness. My Answer Was: A Feeling That You Have Been Honest With Yourself And Those Around You; A Feeling That You Have Done The Best You Could Both In Your Personal Life And In Your Work; And The Ability To Love Others.

The Kind Of Man Who Thinks That Helping With The Dishes Is Beneath Him Will Also Think That Helping With The Baby Is Beneath Him, And Then He Certainly Is Not Going To Be A Very Successful Father.

Staying Aloof Is Not A Solution, It Is A Cowardly Evasion.

When You Are Genuinely Interested In One Thing, It Will Always Lead To Something Else.

Ambition Is Pitiless. Any Merit That It Cannot Use It Finds Despicable.

Long Ago, There Was A Noble Word, Liberal, Which Derives From The Word Free. Now A Strange Thing Happened To That Word. A Man Named Hitler Made It A Term Of Abuse, A Matter Of Suspicion, Because Those Who Were Not With Him Were Against Him, And Liberals Had No Use For Hitler. And Then Another Man Named Mccarthy Cast The Same Opprobrium On The Word. ... We Must Cherish And Honor The Word Free Or It Will Cease To Apply To Us.

Freedom Makes A Huge Requirement Of Every Human Being. With Freedom Comes Responsibility. For The Person Who Is Unwilling To Grow Up, The Person Who Does Not Want To Carry Is Own Weight, This Is A Frightening Prospect.

You In The Unions Do Not Yet Represent All Of Labor. But I Hope Some Day You Will, Because I Believe That It Is Through Strength, Through The Fact That People Who Know What People Need Are Working To Make This Country A Better Place For All People, That We Will Help The World To Accept Our Leadership And Understand That, Under Our Form Of Government And Through Our Way Of Life, We Have Something To Offer Them.

Our Real Battlefield Today Is Asia And Our Real Battle Is The One Between Democracy And Communism. . . . We Have To Prove To The World And Particularly To Downtrodden Areas Of The World Which Are The Natural Prey To The Principles Of Communist Economics That Democracy Really Brings About Happier And Better Conditions For The People As A Whole.

The Fundamental Right Of Freedom Of Thought And Expression Is Essential. If You Curtail What The Other Fellow Says And Does, You Curtail What You Yourself May Say And Do.

Most Women, I Think, Though They May Complain A Little About This, Would Agree That Meeting The Needs Of Others Is Not A Real Burden; It Is What Makes Life Worth Living. It Is Probably The Deepest Satisfaction A Woman Has.

It Is A Brave Thing To Have Courage To Be An Individual; It Is Also, Perhaps, A Lonely Thing. But It Is Better Than Not Being An Individual, Which Is To Be Nobody At All.

One Of The Best Ways Of Enslaving A People Is To Keep Them From Education... The Second Way Of Enslaving A People Is To Suppress The Sources Of Information, Not Only By Burning Books But By Controlling All The Other Ways In Which Ideas Are Transmitted.

It Is A Rather Curious Thing To Have To Divide One's Life Into Personal And Official Compartments And Temporarily Put The Personal Side Into Its Hidden Compartment To Be Taken Out Again When One's Official Duties Are At An End.

Be Confident, Not Certain

I Don't Know Much About Capitalism, But I Do Know About Democracy And Freedom, And If Capitalism May Change In Many, Many Ways, I'm Not Really Very Much Interested In Capitalism.

The Purpose Of Life Is To Live It, To Taste Experience To The Utmost, To Reach Out Eagerly And Without Fear For Newer And Richer Experience.

It Is Harder To Be Philosophical When You Are Young.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do, Provided He Keeps Doing Them Until He Gets A Record Of Successful Experience Behind Him.

Hate And Force Cannot Be In Just A Part Of The World Without Having An Effect On The Rest Of It.

Women Are Like Teabags. We Don't Know Our True Strength Until We Are In Hot Water!

After The Discovery In 1918 Of Love Letters Revealing That Franklin Was Involved With Lucy Mercer: The Bottom Dropped Out Of My Own Particular World, I Faced Myself, My Surroundings, My World, Honestly For The First Time.

The Word Communist, Of Course, Has Become A Rallying Cry For Certain People Here Just As The Word Jew Was In Hitler's Germany, A Way Of Arousing Emotion Without Engendering Thought.

Criticism ... Makes Very Little Dent Upon Me, Unless I Think There Is Some Real Justification And Something Should Be Done.

The Purpose Of Life Afterall Is To Live It.

Purpose Of Life

To Some Of Us, Hunger Was More Academic Than Real, But We Must Try To Develop The Ability To Feel The Urgency Of Such A Situation.

At Any Age It Does Us No Harm To Look Over Our Past Shortcomings And Plan To Improve Our Characters And Actions In The Coming Year.

A Successful Life For A Man Or For A Woman Seems To Me To Lie In The Knowledge That One Has Developed To The Limit The Capacities With Which One Was Endowed; That One Has Contributed Something Constructive To Family And Friends And To A Home Community; That One Has Brought Happiness Wherever It Was Possible; That One Has Earned One's Way In The World, Has Kept Some Friends, And Need Not Be Ashamed To Face Oneself Honestly.

Happiness Is Not A Goal; It Is A By-product.

If We Do Not Pay For Children In Good Schools, Then We Are Going To Pay For Them In Prisons And Mental Hospitals.

A Little Simplification Would Be The First Step Toward Rational Living, I Think.

Inspirational Life

Courage Is More Exhilarating Than Fear And In The Long Run It Is Easier. We Do Not Have To Become Heroes Over Night. Just A Step At A Time, Meeting Each Thing That Comes Up, Seeing It Is Not As Dreadful As It Appeared, Discovering We Have The Strength To Stare It Down.

Every Day Do Something That Frightens You.

Make The Most Of What You Have, When You Have It, Where You Are.

One Of The First Things We Must Get Rid Of Is The Idea That Democracy Is Tantamount To Capitalism.

When Life Is Too Easy For Us, We Must Beware Or We May Not Be Ready To Meet The Blows Which Sooner Or Later Come To Everyone, Rich Or Poor.

It Seems To Me Of Great Importance To Teach Children Respect For Life.

The Future Is Literally In Our Hands To Mold As We Like. But We Cannot Wait Until Tomorrow. Tomorrow Is Now.

Too Often The Great Decisions Are Originated And Given Form In Bodies Made Up Wholly Of Men, Or So Completely Dominated By Them That Whatever Of Special Value Women Have To Offer Is Shunted Aside Without Expression.

I Believe That Anyone Can Conquer Fear By Doing The Things He Fears To Do.

As For Accomplishments, I Just Did What I Had To Do As Things Came Along.

I Found That Almost Everyone Had Something Interesting To Contribute To My Education.

Something Interesting

Do Whatever Comes Your Way To Do As Well As You Can. Think As Little As Possible About Yourself. Think As Much As Possible About Other People. Dwell On Things That Are Interesting. Since You Get More Joy Out Of Giving Joy To Others, You Should Put A Good Deal Of Thought Into The Happiness That You Are Able To Give.

The Labor Movement Has A Great Role To Play In Our Country Today.

We Must Know What We Think And Speak Out, Even At The Risk Of Unpopularity.

One's Philosophy Is Not Best Expressed In Words; It Is Expressed In The Choices One Makes. In Stopping To Think Through The Meaning Of What I Have Learned, There Is Much That I Believe Intensely, Much I Am Unsure Of. In The Long Run, We Shape Our Lives And We Shape Ourselves. The Process Never Ends Until We Die. And, The Choices We Make Are Ultimately Our Own Responsibility.

I'm So Glad I Never Feel Important, It Does Complicate Life!

The Hard Part Of Loving Is That One Has To Learn So Often To Let Go Of Those We Love, So They Can Do Things, So They Can Grow, So They Can Return To Us With An Even Richer, Deeper Love.

Most Of The Work That's Done In The World Gets Done By People Who Weren't Feeling All That Well At The Time That They Did It.

In The Long Run There Is No More Exhilarating Experience Than To Determine One's Position, State It Bravely And Then Act Boldly.

If Life Were Predictable It Would Cease To Be Life, And Be Without Flavor.

It Is Very Difficult To Have A Free, Fair And Honest Press Anywhere In The World. In The First Place, As A Rule, Papers Are Largely Supported By Advertising, And That Immediately Gives The Advertisers A Certain Hold Over The Medium They Use.

All Wars Eventually Act As Boomerangs And The Victor Suffers As Much As The Vanquished.

Education Is The Cornerstone Of Liberty.

You Get Strength And Courage, When You Stop To Look Fear In The Face.

We Need Not Fear Any Isms If Our Democracy Is Achieving The Ends For Which It Was Established.

We All Grow Older And We All Have To Live With Ourselves.

Once Your Children Are Grown Up And Have Children Of Their Own, The Problems Are Theirs And The Less The Older Generation Interferes The Better.

A Guest Is Really Good Or Bad Because Of The Host Or Hostess Who Makes Being A Guest An Easy Or A Difficult Task.

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Everyone Has The Right To Work, To Free Choice Of Employment, To Just And Favorable Conditions Of Work And To Protection Against Unemployment.

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