Tomorrow is Now (Primary source)
Roosevelt’s final book, published posthumously in 1963, serving as her manifesto and battle cry for civil rights—a bold call for America to overcome fear, complacency, and national arrogance to embrace true democracy, civil rights, and responsible global leadership.
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“I would have them go back and read Bradford’s reply to the people who hesitated in Holland before risking the great adventure into the unknown of the Plymouth colonists. The answer, of course, is that there never has been safety. There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Never to go on trips with anyone you do not love.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source