Eleanor Roosevelt
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaAnna Eleanor Roosevelt (
IPA: /ˈɛlɪnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/;
October 11,
1884 –
November 7,
1962) was
First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945. She supported the
New Deal policies of her husband, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, and assumed a role as an advocate for
civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the
New Deal coalition. She was a suffragist who worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the
Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women. In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of
Freedom House and supported the formation of the
United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the
UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the
UN General Assembly from 1945 and 1952, a job for which she was appointed by President
Harry S. Truman and confirmed by the
United States Senate. During her time at the United Nations she chaired the committee that drafted and approved the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Truman called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her
human rights achievements. Active in politics for the rest of her life, she chaired the
John F. Kennedy administration's ground-breaking committee which help start
second-wave feminism, the
Presidential Commission on the Status of Women.
She was one of the most admired persons of the 20th century, according to
Gallup's List of Widely Admired People.
I've always loved this quote by Eleanor Rooservelt
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."Respect yo ^-^
Entry @ 5:20 PM;
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
