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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
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To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.
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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.
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If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
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It is not more vacation we need — it is more vocation.
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Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
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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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You seem to think that everyone can save money if they have the character to do it. As a matter of fact, there are innumerable people who have a wide choice between saving and giving their children the best possible opportunities. The decision is usually in favor of the children.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!
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It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
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I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education.
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One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
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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.
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The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
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