"I know that we will be the..." - Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
More by Eleanor Roosevelt
“Actors are one family over the entire world.”
“Nobody else is going to do the things which are yours to be done in the world.”
“Sometimes it is extremely good for you to forget that there is anything in the world which needs to be done, and to do some particular thing that you want to do. Every human being needs a certain amount of time in which he can be peaceful.”
More on Responsibility
“The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.”
“...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?”
“If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.”
More on Inaction
“If you do nothing there will be no results”
“There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.”
“Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a Senate committee appointed to look into it.”