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This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Diplomat
Feminist
Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.
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What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
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We need our radicals.
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All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
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I could never say in the morning, I have a headache and cannot do thus and so. Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.
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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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No one can move without some leadership.
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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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a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
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I never waste time looking back.
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experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.
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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
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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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Success is not something that can be measured or worn on a watch or hung on a wall. It is not the esteem of colleagues, or the admiration of the community, or the appreciation of patients. Success is the certain knowledge that you have become yourself, the person you will meant to be from all time. That should be reward enough.
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I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
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