In the words of Eleanor Roosevelt:
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.
Today is the oldest you've ever been, and the youngest you'll ever be again.
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
This is a time for action - not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.
The word liberal comes from the word free. We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.
A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.
You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
What you don't do can be a destructive force.
The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
A guest is really good or bad because of the host or hostess who makes being a guest an easy or a difficult task.
So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.
Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.
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.
All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished.
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do.
Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.
Think as little as possible about yourself and as much as possible about other people.
A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain.
a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.
Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.
Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.
One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.
Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.
Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.
Furnish an example, stop preaching, stop shielding, don't prevent self-reliance and initiative, allow your children to develop along thier own lines.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it.
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.
All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.
Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule.
No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.
Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.
If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.
As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced.
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