Eleanor Roosevelt
Noun
Meaning
wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962)
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Examples
No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.
I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me.
The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.
When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women.
The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure.
Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”.