I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could.
Eleanor RooseveltIt seems to me of great importance to teach children respect for life. Towards this end, experiments on living animals in classrooms should be stopped. To encourage cruelty in the name of science can only destroy the finer emotions of affection and sympathy, and breed an unfeeling callousness in the young towards suffering in all living creatures.
Eleanor RooseveltMy experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor RooseveltAll of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert.
Eleanor Roosevelt