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Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
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
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New York City
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First Lady of the world
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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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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We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
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When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
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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 is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.
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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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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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I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.
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Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
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No one from the beginning of time has had security.
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I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
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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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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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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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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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I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free.
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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
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Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
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