Eleanor Roosevelt Democracy Quotations

...without equality there can be no democracy.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

If we fail to meet our problems here, no one else in the world will do so. If we fail, the heart goes out of progressives throughout the world.

We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...

Somehow we must be able to show people that democracy is not about words, but action.

This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

One of the first things we must get rid of is the idea that democracy is tantamount to capitalism.

To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.