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To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

To tell the people in the West not to use their cars means that these people may never see another soul for weeks and weeks nor have a way of getting a sick person to a doctor.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Mean, Doctors, Car

... 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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Religious, Differences

The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Society, Groups, Fundamentals
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.279, Simon and Schuster

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Morning, Done, Headache

You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!

Eleanor Roosevelt
Marriage, Fall, Sloth
Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1982). “Love, Eleanor: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends”, Doubleday Books

We must do what we think we can't do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking

If everything was in your favor, if you did not have to surmount any great mountains, then you have nothing to be proud of. But if you feel that you have special difficulties, then you must indeed be proud of your achievement.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Achievement, Mountain, Special

Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Holiday, Pay, Leisure
Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.280, Simon and Schuster

We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Grows
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I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wish, Republican, Democrat
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I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Responsibility, Men, Worry
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To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Needs, May
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I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Ability, Knows
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I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Democracy, May, Way
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I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge.

Eleanor Roosevelt
People, Feels
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You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence.

Eleanor Roosevelt
White, Impossible Things, House
Source: archives.nbclearn.com

I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Giving, People
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Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Spiritual, Husband, Thinking
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I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, People, Growth
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