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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This Is My Story (1937)
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself”
Cited as a piece of anonymous folk-wisdom from the 1940s onwards https://books.google.com/books?id=iNkWAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others.+You+can%27t+live+long+enough+to+make+them+all+yourself%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22make+them+all+yourself%22. Not attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt until 2001 https://books.google.com/books?id=ctxi36FCi18C&pg=PA151&dq=%22Learn+from+the+mistakes+of+others%22+%22live+long%22+roosevelt&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiI_sD5mqDLAhWIKGMKHb8HAZ0Q6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=%22Learn%20from%20the%20mistakes%20of%20others%22%20%22live%20long%22%20roosevelt&f=false.
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“One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable.”
11 September 1941
My Day (1935–1962)
“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.”
Some evidence for Henry Buckle (1821-1862) as the source: see p.33 quotation https://books.google.com/books?id=2moaAAAAYAAJ&q=buckle#v=snippet&q=buckle&f=false
There are many published incidents of this as an anonymous proverb since at least 1948, and as a statement of Eleanor Roosevelt since at least 1992, but without any citation of an original source. It is also often attributed to Admiral Hyman G. Rickover but, though Rickover quoted this, he did not claim to be the author of it; in "The World of the Uneducated" in The Saturday Evening Post (28 November 1959), he prefaces it with "As the unknown sage puts it..."
Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, and little minds discuss people.
In this form it was quoted as an anonymous epigram in A Guide to Effective Public Speaking (1953) by Lawrence Henry Mouat
New York times Saturday review of books and art, 1931: ...Wanted, the correct quotation and origin of this expression: Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people...
Several other variants or derivatives of the expression exist, but none provide a definite author:
Great minds discuss ideas, mediocre minds discuss events, small minds discuss personalities.
Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people
Small minds discuss things
Average minds discuss people
Great minds discuss ideas
...Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. (Marie Curie, undated (died 1934), as quoted in Living Adventures in Science by Henry and Dana Lee Thomas, 1972)
...Some professor of psychology who has been eavesdropping for years makes the statement that "The best minds discuss ideas; the second in ranking talk about things; while the third group, or the least in mentality, gossip about people"… (Hardware age, Volume 123, 1929)
...He now reports that, "the best minds discuss ideas; the second ranking talks about things; while the third and lowest mentality – starved for ideas – gossips about people." (Printers' Ink, Volume 139, Issue 2, 1927, p. 87)
...It has been said long ago that there were three classes of people in the world, and while they are subject to variation, for elemental consideration they are useful. The first is that large class of people who talk about people; the next class are those who talk about things; and the third class are those who discuss ideas... (H. J. Derbyshire, "Origin of mental species", 1919)
...Mrs. Conklin points out certain bad conversational habits and suggests good ones, quoting Buckle's classic classification of talkers into three orders of intelligence — those who talk about nothing but persons, those who talk about things and those who discuss ideas... (review of Mary Greer Conklin's book Conversation: What to say and how to say it in The Continent, Jan. 23, 1913, p. 118)
...[ Henry Thomas Buckle's ] thoughts and conversations were always on a high level, and I recollect a saying of his which not only greatly impressed me at the time, but which I have ever since cherished as a test of the mental calibre of friends and acquaintances. Buckle said, in his dogmatic way: "Men and women range themselves into three classes or orders of intelligence; you can tell the lowest class by their habit of always talking about persons, the next by the fact that their habit is always to converse about things; the highest by their preference for the discussion of ideas"… (Charles Stewart, "Haud immemor. Reminescences of legal and social life in Edinburgh and London. 1850-1900", 1901, p. 33 http://www.mocavo.com/Haud-Immemor-by-Charles-Stewart-Reminiscences-of-Life-in-Edinburgh-and-London-1850-1900/608008/13?browse=true#63).
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The quote is usually regarded as anonymous, but is often attributed to her on several websites, as well as in several books, including My Life Is an Open Book http://books.google.es/books?id=qCOa1k--dt4C&printsec=frontcover&hl=es#v=onepage&q=eleanor%20roosevelt&f=false (2008), The Spirituality of Mary Magdalene http://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=BLRuINwzVZcC&dq=eleanor+roosevelt++%22past+is+history%22&q=eleanor+roosevelt#v=snippet&q=eleanor%20roosevelt&f=false (2008), Mis cuatro estaciones http://books.google.es/books?hl=es&id=QCgANqKq8EIC&dq=ayer+es+historia%2C+ma%C3%B1ana++misterio.+Hoy+regalo+de+Dios+presente&q=%22eleanor+roosevelt%22#v=snippet&q=%22eleanor%20roosevelt%22&f=false (2008), and Gilles Lamontagne http://books.google.es/books?ei=MdG9UqGQK-fL2wX5zYC4Dw&hl=es&id=WyFKAQAAIAAJ&dq=Hier+est+de+l%27histoire%2C+demain+est+un+myst%C3%A8re+et+aujourd%27hui+est+un+cadeau.+C%27+est+pourquoi+nous+l%27appelons+%C2%AB+le+pr%C3%A9sent+roosevelt&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=eleanor+roosevelt (2010). None of these works cite any original reference.
Disputed
Fonte: You Learn by Living (1960), p. 63
As quoted in The Three Roosevelts: Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America (2002) by James MacGregor Burns ad Susan Dunn, p. 563
Variante: I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on.
Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xvi; the last line was originally used in the initial edition of her autobiography: This Is My Story (1937)
“No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling.”
20 December 1939
My Day (1935–1962)
from "My Day" (January 8, 1936)
Fonte: https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1936&_f=md054227 Eleanor Roosevelt, "My Day, January 8, 1936," The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Digital Edition (2017), accessed 7/24/2018, https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/myday/displaydoc.cfm?_y=1936&_f=md054227.
“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
Fonte: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), p. 71
As quoted in How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (1944; 1948) by Dale Carnegie; though Roosevelt has sometimes been credited with the originating the expression, "Damned if you do and damned if you don't" is set in quote marks, indicating she herself was quoting a common expression in saying this. Actually, this saying was coined back even earlier, 1836, by evangelist Lorenzo Dow in his sermons about ministers saying the Bible contradicts itself, telling his listeners, "… those who preach it up, to make the Bible clash and contradict itself, by preaching somewhat like this: 'You can and you can't-You shall and you shan't-You will and you won't-And you will be damned if you do-And you will be damned if you don't.' "
“America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.”
Deliberately misattributed for comic effect in the opening of the film Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006)
Misattributed