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In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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If I went to work in a factory the first thing I'd do is join a union. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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