Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Rooseveltwas an American politician, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, having held the post from March 1933 to April 1945 during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, and served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitical Wife
Date of Birth11 October 1884
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.
There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing.
If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.
The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.
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.
Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it.
We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say.
The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was.
Every woman in public life needs to develop skin as tough as rhinoceros hide,
Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church.
Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building.
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice, to employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protectior against unemployment.