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
...without equality there can be no democracy.
A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.
We need not fear any isms if our democracy is achieving the ends for which it was established ...
To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start.
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.
It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work.
The freedom of man, I contend, is the freedom to eat.
We don't become heroes overnight." - One step at a time, eventually discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.