Agnes E. Meyer

“Recreation is not a secondary concern for a democracy. It is a primary concern, for the kind of recreation a people seek tells more about them than even the candidates they elect.”

“The whole world is a scab. The point is to pick it constructively.”

“So long as we have slums in our cities and live in skyscrapers, we have not solved our problems.”

“Liberty is not a right but a duty.”

“What our children have to fear is not the external world. It is the emptiness within themselves.”

“We must rid this nation of the irrational fear of unemployment and the equally irrational worship of production.”

“Art is not a luxury, but a necessity of the human spirit.”

“The deepest and most important reason for criticism is that it is the only way in which we can learn and grow.”

“A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny.”

“The school must be the guardian of the community's children.”

“The battle for democracy is a continuous one, and it is fought not only on the battlefield but in the classrooms, the factories, and the homes of our country.”

“We cannot have a peaceful world until we have a just world.”

“The home is the well-spring of a nation's life. Whatever happens in the home is reflected in the nation's character.”