Anna Eleanor Roosevelt foi primeira-dama dos Estados Unidos de 1933 a 1945.
Apoiou a política do New Deal, criada por seu marido e primo de quinto grau, o presidente Franklin Delano Roosevelt, e tornou-se grande defensora dos direitos humanos. Após a morte do marido, em 1945, Roosevelt continuou a ser uma defensora, porta-voz, ativista internacional para a coalizão do New Deal. Trabalhou para melhorar a situação das mulheres trabalhadoras, embora tenha sido contra a política dos direitos iguais, pois acreditava que ela afetaria negativamente as mulheres.
Nos anos 1940, Eleanor foi uma das co-fundadoras da França Freedom House e apoiou a criação da Organização das Nações Unidas . Em 1943, Roosevelt criou a United Nations Association of the United States of America para dar suporte a criação da ONU. Foi diplomata e embaixadora dos Estados Unidos na Organização das Nações Unidas entre 1945 e 1952, por nomeação do presidente Harry Truman. Durante o seu tempo na ONU presidiu a comissão que elaborou e aprovou a Declaração Universal dos Direitos Humanos. O presidente Truman apelidou-a de "Primeira-dama do Mundo" em homenagem a suas conquistas referentes aos direitos humanos.Uma figura ativa na política durante toda a sua vida, Eleanor Roosevelt presidiu a comissão da inovadora administração de John F. Kennedy que deu início a segunda onda do feminismo, a Comissão Presidencial sobre o Status da Mulher. Seu tio, Theodore Roosevelt, foi duas vezes presidente dos Estados Unidos. Eleanor Roosevelt tinha ancestrais neerlandeses.
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“Se alguém trai você uma vez, a culpa é dele. Se trai duas vezes, a culpa é sua.”
If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
citado em "Defining moments: experiences of black executives in South Africa's workplace" - página 145, Wendy Luhabe, University of Natal Press, 2002, ISBN 1869140206, 9781869140205, 212 páginas
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“Ninguém pode fazer com que você se sinta inferior sem o seu consentimento.”
Variante: Ninguém pode fazer com que te sintas inferior sem o teu consentimento.
“O futuro pertence àqueles que acreditam na beleza de seus sonhos.”
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
It Seems to Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt - Página 2, Eleanor Roosevelt, Leonard C. Schlup, Donald W. Whisenhunt - University Press of Kentucky, 2005, ISBN 0813191335, 9780813191331 - 304 páginas
“Pessoas jovens bonitas são acidentes da natureza; pessoas idosas bonitas são obras de arte.”
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, beautiful old people are works of art.
citado em "The New Love and Sex After 60", Robert N. Butler, Myrna I. Lewis - Ballantine Books, 2002, ISBN 0345442113, 9780345442116 - 380 páginas
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“Ninguém pode fazê-lo inferior sem a sua permissão.”
Variante: Ninguém pode lhe fazer inferior sem a sua permissão.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You learn by living - página 29, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harper, 1960, 211 páginas
“Criatividade sempre significa fazer o não-familiar.”
creativity always means the doing of the unfamiliar
"Tomorrow is now" - página 67, Eleanor Roosevelt - Harper & Row, 1963 - 139 páginas
“O único homem que jamais erra é aquele que nunca faz nada.”
citado em "Perito-contador: com foco na área econômico e financeira" - página 176, Ronildo Da C Manoel, Juruá, 2005, ISBN 8536210672, 9788536210674
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If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure you will find that you become increasingly interested in them and endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter.
You learn by living - página 136, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harper, 1960, 211 páginas
“Ninguém pode ferir você sem o seu consentimento.”
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
This Is My Story (1937)
Variante: Ninguém pode magoar você sem o seu consentimento.
“Quando deixamos de contribuir, começamos a morrer.”
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die
citado em "Eleanor: the years alone" - página 302, Joseph P. Lash - Konecky & Konecky, 1972, ISBN 1568520891, 9781568520896 - 368 páginas
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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 learn by living - Página 29, Eleanor Roosevelt - Westminster John Knox Press, 1983, ISBN 0664244947, 9780664244941 - 211 páginas
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Fonte: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Fonte: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
Foreword (January 1960)
You Learn by Living (1960)
Contexto: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
From a speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California, quoted in The Event Makers I’ve Known (2012) by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161. She is described as being in her late 70s, so c. 1960–1962
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: The film industry is a great industry with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies. In a democratic country I do not think the public will tolerate a removal of its right to decide what it thinks of the ideas and performances of those who make the movie industry work. (29 October 1947)
Fonte: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), pp. 119–120
Contexto: We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are. … In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
Fonte: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 152
Contexto: "Anxiety," Kierkegaard said, "is the dizziness of freedom." This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then — it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
We must all face and unpalatable fact that we have, too often, a tendency to skim over; we proceed on the assumption that all men want freedom. This is not as true as we would like it to be. Many men and women who are far happier when they have relinquish their freedom, when someone else guides them, makes their decisions for them, takes the responsibility for them and their actions. They don't want to make up their minds. They don't want to stand on their own feet.
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
I have been one of those who have carried the fight for complete freedom of information in the United Nations. And while accepting the fact that some of our press, our radio commentators, our prominent citizens and our movies may at times be blamed legitimately for things they have said and done, still I feel that the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA. (29 October 1947)
“We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity.”
Fonte: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), pp. 119–120
Contexto: We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are. … In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: In times past, the question usually asked by women was "How can we best help to defend our nation?" I cannot remember a time when the question on so many people's lips was "How can we prevent war?"
There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war. For many years war has been looked upon as almost inevitable in the solution of any question that has arisen between nations, and the nation that was strong enough to do so went about building up its defenses and its power to attack. It felt that it could count on these two things for safety. (20 December 1961)
Fonte: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. xv
Contexto: 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. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: Little by little it dawned upon me that this law was not making people drink any less, but it was making hypocrites and law breakers of a great number of people. It seemed to me best to go back to the old situation in which, if a man or woman drank to excess, they were injuring themselves and their immediate family and friends and the act was a violation against their own sense of morality and no violation against the law of the land. (14 July 1939)
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: I was one of those who was very happy when the original prohibition amendment passed. I thought innocently that a law in this country would automatically be complied with, and my own observation led me to feel rather ardently that the less strong liquor anyone consumed the better it was. During prohibition I observed the law meticulously, but I came gradually to see that laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law. (14 July 1939)
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: 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. (1 April 1939)
“This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery.”
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: This is a time for action — not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery. It is also a time for facing the fact that you cannot use a weapon, even though it is the weapon that gives you greater strength than other nations, if it is so destructive that it practically wipes out large areas of land and great numbers of innocent people. (16 April 1954 )
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: What is going on in the Un-American Activities Committee worries me primarily because little people have become frightened and we find ourselves living in the atmosphere of a police state, where people close doors before they state what they think or look over their shoulders apprehensively before they express an opinion.
I have been one of those who have carried the fight for complete freedom of information in the United Nations. And while accepting the fact that some of our press, our radio commentators, our prominent citizens and our movies may at times be blamed legitimately for things they have said and done, still I feel that the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.
In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good. The Un-American Activities Committee seems to me to be better for a police state than for the USA. (29 October 1947)
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations. Then if we are forced into war, it will be because there has been no way to prevent it through negotiation and the mobilization of world opinion. In which case we should have the voluntary support of many nations, which is far better than the decision of one nation alone, or even of a few nations. (16 April 1954)
My Day (1935–1962)
Contexto: As long as we are not actually destroyed, we can work to gain greater understanding of other peoples and to try to present to the peoples of the world the values of our own beliefs. We can do this by demonstrating our conviction that human life is worth preserving and that we are willing to help others to enjoy benefits of our civilization just as we have enjoyed it. (20 December 1961)