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
Eleanor Roosevelt quotes about
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.
If you must compromise, compromise up.
It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.
Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.
Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!
When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
When it's better for everyone, it's better for everyone.
When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.
Some friends leave footprints in your heart
A candle can bring light to a dungeon but it can also be used to light a deadly marijuana cigarette.
Keep us at tasks too hard for us that we may be driven to Thee for strength.