Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About Progress

Quotes about: Progress

• Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Home, Rights, Progress

  Remarks at presentation of booklet on human rights, In Your Hands, to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, United Nations, New York, March 27, 1958.

• There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Moving, Heart, Frustration

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1990). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: The post-war years, her acclaimed columns, 1945-1952”, 1990.

• It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Progress, Goes On, Want

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.54, Da Capo Press

• I kept praying that I might be able to prevent a repetition of this stupidity called war. I have tried to keep the promise I made to myself, but the progress that the world is making toward peace seems like the crawling of a little child, very halting and slow.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Peace, Children, War

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