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

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.

You always admire what you really don't understand. - Eleanor Roosevelt

...but there isn't going to be any First Lady. There is just to be plain, ordinary Mrs. Roosevelt...I never wanted to be the president's wife, and don't want it now. You don't quite believe me, do you? Very likely no one would-except possibly some woman who had had the job.

Basically we could not have peace, or an atmosphere in which peace could grow, unless we recognized the rights of individual human beings... their importance, their dignity... and agreed that was the basic thing that had to be accepted throughout the world.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!