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It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.
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You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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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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I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.
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...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree as we do namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions
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One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.
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I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them.
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Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.
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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.
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Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.
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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.
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I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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Do one thing every day that scares you.
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Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.
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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
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