Eleanor Roosevelt Political Quotations

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

What one has to do usually can be done.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

...without equality there can be no democracy.