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
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well.
People who 'view with alarm' never build anything.
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.
...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.
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.
The giving of love is an education in itself.
Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.
Education is the cornerstone of liberty.