Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

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I've just recently been reading about Eleanor Roosevelt and some of her quotes and was impressed and thought I'd share some of her words here. What would the world be like without our beloved, strong, smart women?

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think...

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself...

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk...

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; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college he attends; the factory, farm, or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman, and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world...

The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us...

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it...

For it isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it...

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?