Status Updates From My Day: The Best of Eleanor...

“A few days ago I met Mrs. Rosa Parks, who started the nonviolent protest in Montgomery, Alabama against segregation on buses … Human beings reach a point when they say: ‘This is as far as I can go,’ and from then on it may be passive resistance, but it will be resistance … [we] have to learn that there is a point beyond which human beings will not continue to bear injustice.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“I would not look for a Communist under every bed. I would believe that a majority of our people believe in their Republican form of government & their democratic way of life. I will accept the fact that we have to improve & try to give benefits to more people within our own nation, but I will not believe that the terror & poverty of Communism and their faith in materialism instead of in God can win in the struggle

“I think if we care for the preservation of our liberties we must allow all people, whether we disagree with them or not, to hold meetings and express their views unmolested as long as they do not advocate the overthrow of our Government by force.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“… at all times and as long as one lives, life administers disciplines, and it is in accepting and obeying them that one learns.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Lord, when Thou see’st that my work is done,
Let me not linger here
With failing powers,
A workless worker in a world of work;
But with a word, just bid me Home
And I will come, Right gladly will I come
Yes, Right gladly will I come.” — John Oxenham, quoted by Eleanor Roosevelt

“The complications of family relationships, as regards my husband & myself, become completely baffling to our English guests. I tried to explain to Lord Beaverbrook what relationship my husband is to Mrs. Theodore Douglas Robinson, & I think at the end he was as mystified as if I had never attempted an explanation.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“having children is, perhaps, the beginning of an education for them, but it is certainly the beginning of an education for their parents. All their young lives their parents are learning self-control, patience, a sense of values, how to respect other people’s personalities and yet not neglect teaching some things which, if not learned young, must be learned in later life with greater hardship.” Eleanor Roosevelt

“Thank God, few people are so poor that they do not have an inner life which feeds the real springs of thought and action.” — Eleanor Roosevelt