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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.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.
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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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We don't become heroes overnight. - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
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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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Power corrupts. Knowledge is power. Study hard. Be evil.
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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.
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Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
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Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’
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There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner.
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We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment.
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