Eleanor Roosevelt

Understanding is a two-way street.

Understanding is a two-way street.

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom read more

At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want--for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most read more

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in read more

I have never felt that anything really mattered by the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving read more

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.