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In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
Autobiographer
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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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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We must do that which we think we cannot.
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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I believe that all that we go through here must have some value.
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One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.
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What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?
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The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
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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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The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
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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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I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.
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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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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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