Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes - Page 7

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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 cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Progress

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

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• I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

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  Government, Play, Political

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.39, Da Capo Press

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• Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

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  Inspirational, Something New, Framework

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.78, Westminster John Knox Press

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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 human being - we can do it.

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  Inspirational, Peace, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.159, Penguin

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• To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

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  Children, People, Giving

  "The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. xvi), 1961.

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• Do something everyday that scares you.

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  Everyday, Scare

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• Every age is an unknown country.

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  Country, Age

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.75, Penguin

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• On the whole our armed services have been doing pretty well in the way of keeping us defended, but I hope our State Department will remember that it is really the department of achieving peace.

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  Way, Remember, Achieve

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• 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.

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  Rights, President, Individual

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

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  Birthday, Family, Mother

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

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

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  Rights, Dignity, Born Free

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.277, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

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  Love, Life, Inspiring

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

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  Love, Inspirational, Pain

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.36, Da Capo Press

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• As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

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  Motivational, Accomplishment, Political

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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• Friends, you and me... you brought another friend... and then there were three... we started our group... our circle of friends... and like that circle... there is no beginning or end.

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  Circles, Groups, Three

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• Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.

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  Real, Character, Men

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.93, Da Capo Press

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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 become yourself.

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  Children, Transcendentalism, Influence

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• I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

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  Life Lesson, Years, Roles

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2012). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The human rights years, 1949-1952”, Eleanor Roosevelt Papers

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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 having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

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  Government, Hands, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

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  Rights, Long, Political

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• Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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  Good Morning, Passion, Shadow

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• Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

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  Skins, Thick, Rhinoceros

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• No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood.

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  Friendship Love, Marriage Love, Parenthood

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1962). “Book of common sense etiquette”

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• The American Dream can no more remain static than can the American nation.... We cannot any longer take an old approach to world problems. They aren't the same problems. It isn't the same world. We must not adopt the methods of our ancestors; instead, we must emulate that pioneer quality in our ancestors that made them attempt new methods for a New World.

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  Dream, America, Quality

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• I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.

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  Age, Looks, Aging

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

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