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
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...
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.
The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.
Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.
Anger is one letter short of danger.
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.
...without equality there can be no democracy.
A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.
The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.
We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.