It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.
I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain.
I can’t tell you how to succeed, but I can tell you how to fail: Try to please everybody.
Men have to be reminded that women exist.
Terrific minds focus on tips; average minds go over activities; little minds talk about people today.
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.
Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.
Poverty is an expensive luxury. We cannot afford it.
Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.
I think that if the atomic bomb did nothing more, it scared the people to the point where they realized that either they must do something about preventing war or there is a chance that there might be a morning when we would not wake up.
How can we be such fools as to go on senselessly taking human life in this way? Why the women in every nation do not rise up and refuse to bring children into a world of this kind is beyond my understanding.
I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people’s lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can’t do some of the things I want.
As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do – I just did it.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.
Choose a challenge instead of competence.
Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart.
Most of the work that’s done in the world gets done by people who weren’t feeling all that well at the time that they did it.
Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you’re in nonprofit.
One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.