“The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“… any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“The giving of love is an education in itself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established …”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You’ll be criticized anyway.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“You always admire what you really don’t understand.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Understanding is a two-way street.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I think somehow we learn who we really are and then we live with that decision.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“I have spent many years of my life in opposition and I like the role.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“What one has to do usually can be done.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
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