Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

… any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

Country

Sacrifice

War

… many of the things which we deplore, the prevalence of tuberculosis, the mounting record of crime in certain sections of the country, are not due just to lack of education and to physical differences, but are due in great part to the basic fact of segregation which we have set up in this country and which warps and twists the lives not only of our Negro population, but sometimes of foreign born or even of religious groups.

Country

Differences

Religious

… the next war will be a war in which people not armies will suffer, and our boasted, hard-earned civilization will do us no good. Cannot the women rise to this great opportunity and work now, and not have the double horror, if another war comes, of losing their loved ones, and knowing that they lifted no finger when they might have worked hard?

Army

Opportunity

War

…but there isn’t going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt…I never wanted to be the president’s wife, and don’t want it now. You don’t quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Believe

Jobs

Wife

…conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

Hands

Land

People

…no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Appreciation

Avid

People

…real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

Political

Politics

Real

…so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others.

Greed

Long

Running

…without equality there can be no democracy.

Democracy

Political

Politics

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Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

… any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.

…but there isn’t going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt…I never wanted to be the president’s wife, and don’t want it now. You don’t quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

…conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand.

…no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

…real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

…without equality there can be no democracy.

A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.

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