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Eleanor Roosevelt: You can't move...

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You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

Source: On My Own, 1958.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt, (Oct 11 1884-1962), US first lady, social reformer; She was First Lady of the World, U.S. delegate to U.N., 1945-53, and wrote It's Up to the Women, 1953.


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