Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Diversity

Quotes about: Diversity

• A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, Ideas, White

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2012). “Tomorrow Is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future”, p.49, Penguin

• If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Adventure, Diversity, Personality

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You learn by living”, HarperCollins Publishers

• 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

• Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Change, Views, Civilization

• We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Thinking, Views

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

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