Things I didn't know about Eleanor Roosevelt.

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4. "I have spent many years of my life in opposition,

and I rather like the role. "




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



"Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it."


"I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."


"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."


"The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it."

"Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."

" You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority."

"You must do the things you think you cannot do. "


Some quotes from the great Eleanor Roosevelt, a spectacular human being. Still vilified by the right wing because she was just so gosh darn scary.