721 Quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt

When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization.

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

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

Life is like a parachute jump, you've got to get it right the first time.

The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.

I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few

Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit.

Education is the cornerstone of liberty.