Reading Eleanor and Franklin books for book club. This quote is from the book by her young "radical" friend Joseph Lash. He attributes it to her but I couldn't find the speech it came from.
The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world "Love thy neighbor as thyself" Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their follower forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations. . When we center on our own home, our own family, our own business we are neglecting this fundamental obligation of every human being and until it is acknowledged and fulfilled we cannot have world peace.
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