One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader,

Eleanor Roosevelt

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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.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!

Eleanor Roosevelt

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The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Long ago, there was a noble word, liberal, which derives from the word free. Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. ... We must cherish and honor the word free or it will cease to apply to us.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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I can't tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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If human beings can be trained for cruelty and greed and a belief in power which comes through hate and fear and force, certainly we can train equally well for greatness and mercy and the power of love which comes because of the strength of the good qualities to be found in the soul of every human being.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness far too often changed to misery by a failure to understand this.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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