Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• ...without equality there can be no democracy.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Political, Democracy, Politics

• Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Wise, People, Leader

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

• To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Healthy, Democracy, Citizens

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

• Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Children, Responsibility

• We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Fear, Democracy, Needs

• One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Ideas, Democracy, Firsts

• I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, Hands, People

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Real, Women, People

  Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Steve Neal (2002). “Eleanor and Harry: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

• Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Justice, Diversity, Democracy

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

• Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Spiritual, Husband, Thinking

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Democracy, May, Way

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Democracy, Problem, Miscellaneous

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.56, Da Capo Press

• A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, Rights, Democracy

• Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  People, Democracy, Able

• I believe that it is essential to our leadership in the world and to the development of true democracy in our country to have no discrimination in our country whatsoever. This is most important in the schools of our country.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Women, Believe

• A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Education, Women, School

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1995). “What I Hope to Leave Behind: The Essential Essays of Eleanor Roosevelt”, Carlson Pub

• If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Heart, Democracy, World

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