"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
"The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had."
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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1992). “The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt”
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