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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
1960·New York City, USA

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted. (11 May 1943)

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More from Eleanor Roosevelt

1944

Do what you feel in your heart to be right — for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

1951

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

1960

We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.

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Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

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Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent.

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