"Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong."
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"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without being related to you and repeatedly questioning why you're in nonprofit."
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"Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do."
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"When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived."
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"I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization."
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"You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't.""
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"Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done."
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"Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
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"It is equality of monotony which makes the strength of the British Isles."
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"At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year."
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"The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today."
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"Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church."
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"You in the unions do not yet represent all of labor. But I hope some day you will, because I believe that it is through strength, through the fact that people who know what people need are working to make this country a better place for all people, that we will help the world to accept our leadership and understand that, under our form of government and through our way of life, we have something to offer them."
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"We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
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"The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most."
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"A great deal of fear is a result of just “not knowing.” We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear."
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"Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide."
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"Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself."
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"It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."
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"The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans."
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