You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.
Eleanor RooseveltThe destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Eleanor RooseveltI'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.
Eleanor RooseveltThe future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now.
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 RooseveltWe mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt