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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962

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My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962 Quotes

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

“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.”