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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.

-Eleanor Roosevelt

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You In The Unions

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

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We Must Do That Which We Think We Cannot.

Anyone Who Has Gone Through Great Suffering Is Bound To Have A Greater Sympathy And Understanding Of The Problems Of Mankind.

Education Is The Cornerstone Of Liberty.

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Courage Is Exhilarating.

We Must Do What We Think We Can't Do.

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Remember Always That You Have Not Only The Right To Be An Individual; You Have An Obligation To Be One.

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People Grow Through Experience If They Meet Life Honestly And Courageously. This Is How Character Is Built.

We Will Have To Want Peace, Want It Enough To Pay For It, Before It Becomes An Accepted Rule.

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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.

The Trouble Is That Not Enough People Have Come Together With The Firm Determination To Live The Things Which They Say They Believe.

America Is All About Speed. Hot, Nasty, Bad-ass Speed.

The Encouraging Thing Is That Every Time You Meet A Situation, Though You May Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Ever Were Before. . . . You Gain Strength, Courage, And Confidence By Every Experience In Which You Really Stop To Look Fear In The Face. You Are Able To Say To Yourself, “i Lived Through This Horror. I Can Take The Next Thing That Comes Along.

The Purpose Of Life Afterall Is To Live It.

Purpose Of Life

I Wish I Really Knew What The Republican Foreign Policy Has Been. I Don't. I Am A Democrat, And I Really Don't Know What It Has Been.

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.

We Have Reached A Point Today Where Labor-saving Devices Are Good Only When They Do Not Throw The Worker Out Of His Job.

I Have A Great Belief In Spiritual Force, But I Think We Have To Realize That Spiritual Force Alone Has To Have Material Force With It So Long As We Live In A Material World. The Two Together Make A Strong Combination.

Smearing Good People Like Lauchlin Currie [former Administrative Assistant To President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss And Others Is, I Think, Unforgiveable... Anyone Knowing Mr. Currie Or Mr. Hiss, Who Are The Two People Whom I Happen To Know Fairly Well, Would Not Need Any Denial On Their Part To Know They Are Not Communists. Their Records Prove It.

...without Equality There Can Be No Democracy.

Organize First For Knowledge, First With The Object Of Making Us Know Ourselves As A Nation, For We Have To Do That Before We Canbe Of Value To Other Nations Of The World And Then Organize To Accomplish The Things That You Decide To Want. Anddon't Make Decisions With The Interest Of Youth Alone Before You. Make Your Decisions Because They Are Good For The Nation As A Whole.

You Should Always Own A Black Dress Because No One Ever Remembers A Black Dress.

Perhaps The Basic Thing Which Contributes To Charm Is The Ability To Forget Oneself And Be Engrossed In Other People.

How Can We Be Such Fools As To Go On Senselessly Taking Human Life In This Way? Why The Women In Every Nation Do Not Rise Up And Refuse To Bring Children Into A World Of This Kind Is Beyond My Understanding.

Change Means The Unknown.

We Stand Today At The Threshold Of A Great Event Both In The Life Of The United Nations And In The Life Of Mankind, That Is The Approval By The General Assembly Of The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights.

The Term 'young Adults' Which Is So Often Used Today Seems To Me A Misnomer, And One Which, If Taken Seriously, May Lead The Adolescent Into Misunderstanding As To His Nature And His Role In Life. 'young" He Is; 'adult' He Is Not.

Every Time You Meet A Situation You Think At The Time It Is An Impossibility And You Go Through The Tortures Of The Damned, Once You Have Met It And Lived Through It, You Find That Forever After You Are Freer Than You Were Before.

You Can't Move So Fast That You Try To Change The Mores Faster Than People Can Accept It. That Doesn't Mean You Do Nothing, But It Means That You Do The Things That Need To Be Done According To Priority.

Anyone Who Knows History, Particularly The History Of Europe, Will, I Think, Recognize That The Domination Of Education Or Of Government By Any One Particular Religious Faith Is Never A Happy Arrangement For The People.

It Is Not That You Set The Individual Apart From Society But That You Recognize In Any Society That The Individual Must Have Rights That Are Guarded.

Everyone Has The Right To Freedom Of Thought, Conscience And Religion; This Right Includes Freedom To Change His Religion Or Belief, And Freedom, Either Alone Or In Community With Others And In Public Or Private, To Manifest His Religion Or Belief In Teaching, Practice, Worship And Observance.

We Are Given In Our Newspapers And On Tv And Radio Exactly What We, The Public, Insist On Having, And This Very Frequently Is Mediocre Information And Mediocre Entertainment.

Every Age Is An Unknown Country.

I Learned Then That Practically No One In The World Is Entirely Bad Or Entirely Good, And That Motives Are Often More Important Than Actions.

To A Certain Extent I Don't See Any Real Need For Socialism In The United States Immediately, But Things Change And It May Be That There Will Come A Need For Partial Changes In Our Economy.

Up To A Certain Point It Is Good For Us To Know That There Are People In The World Who Will Give Us Love And Unquestioned Loyalty To The Limit Of Their Ability. I Doubt, However, If It Is Good For Us To Feel Assured Of This Without The Accompanying Obligation Of Having To Justify This Devotion By Our Behavior.

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 Become Yourself.

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Perhaps In His Wisdom The Almighty Is Trying To Show Us That A Leader May Chart The Way, May Point Out The Road To Lasting Peace, But That Many Leaders And Many Peoples Must Do The Building.

The Bible Illustrated By Dore Occupied Many Of My Hours - And I Think Probably Gave Me Many Nightmares.

I Have Learned Long Ago To Possess My Soul In Patience And Accept The Inevitable.

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

No Matter How Plain A Woman May Be, If Truth And Honesty Are Written Across Her Face, She Will Be Beautiful.

Marriage And The Up-bringing Of Children In The Home Require As Well-trained A Mind And As Well-disciplined A Character As Any Other Occupation That Might Be Considered A Career.

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