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It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the

It seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Respect, Nature, Children

Some friends leave footprints in your heart

Eleanor Roosevelt
Heart, Two Friends, Friends Come And Go

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Past, World, Lessons
"Tomorrow Is Now" by Eleanor Roosevelt, (p. xv), 1963.

I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking, Mets, Felt
Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing, Done, Felt
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Government, People, Purpose

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Knowing, Admiration, Length

We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Lessons, May, Gains
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida M. Black (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers: The Human Rights Years, 1945-1948”

If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Children, School, Pay
Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.262, Da Capo Press

All of us ... should remember that no amount of flag-waving, pledging allegiance, or fervent singing of the national anthem is evidence that we are patriotic in the real sense of the word. ... Outward behavior, while important, is not the real measure of a man's patriotism.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Real, Patriotic, Men

We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Jobs, Believe

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Happiness, Depression

Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Skins, Needs, Tough

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Peace, War, Military
"The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 156), 1992.

In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, People, Our Country
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.244, Columbia University Press

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Ifs
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.111, Westminster John Knox Press

Change means the unknown.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Moving, Moving Forward, Mean
Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.63, Penguin

Actors are one family over the entire world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Family, Actors, World

I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the plight of a single person...Out of my response to an individual develops an awareness of a problem to the community, then to the country, then to the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Country, Community, Causes

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Strong Women, Work, Way

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Wisdom, Intelligent, Light
Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.168, Westminster John Knox Press

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Soulmate, Giving, Stubborn

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Rights, Expression, Essentials
Eleanor Roosevelt, Allida Mae Black (2013). “Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt”, p.244, Columbia University Press

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Life, Mistake, Past
"Confinement and Ethnicity".

This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used.

Eleanor Roosevelt
Women, War, Fighting
"Female WWII pilots to be honored with float in Rose Parade" by Athena Jones, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2014.

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