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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
Journalist
Peace Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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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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... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.
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Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?
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A stumbling block to the pessimist is a stepping-stone to the optimist.
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If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively.
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If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
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How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
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I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed)
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
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About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome.
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No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
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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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I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
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...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.
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What you don't do can be a destructive force.
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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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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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Anger is one letter short of danger.
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the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed.
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