Mrs. Roosevelt was vocal in her support of the African-American civil rights movement. She was outspoken in her support of Marian Anderson in 1939 when the black singer was denied the use of Washington's Constitution Hall and was instrumental in the subsequent concert held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial...
My favorite story in this vein is when a meeting of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare where Eleanor Roosevelt made a statement by sitting precisely between the white and black seating areas. She did so despite warnings from the Birmingham police that none of the participants should break segregation laws.
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.”
“Do one thing everyday that scares you.”
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
“You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
“Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart”
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. ”
“You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude”
“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”
“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.”
“Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.”
“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.”
“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
“Work is always an antidote to depression.”
“Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
“The Marines I have seen around the world have the cleanest bodies, the filthiest minds, the highest morale, and the lowest morals of any group of animals I have ever seen. Thank God for the United States Marine Corps!”
- Eleanor Roosevelt”
Previous Salutes
Lyndon B. Johnson Michelle Obama
Helen Hayes Marion Wright Edelman Bishop Gene Robinson
Bishop Desmond Tutu Rachel Carson Helen Keller
Martin Luther King, Jr Dalai Lama Dag Hammarskjold
1 comment:
what a fine list!
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