If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.
Eleanor RooseveltWhere, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere.
Eleanor RooseveltOur real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.
Eleanor RooseveltCuriously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
Eleanor Roosevelt