Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes United Nations

Roosevelt s four terms in office making her the longest serving first lady of the united states.

Eleanor roosevelt quotes united nations. The eleanor roosevelt papers we stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the united nations and in the life of mankind. Eleanor roosevelt david emblidge 2009. The best of eleanor roosevelt s acclaimed newspaper columns 1936 1962 p 79 da capo press 50 copy quote. Roosevelt 32nd president of the united states and a united nations diplomat and humanitarian.

Eleanor roosevelt looking at a model of the permanent headquarters of the united nations franklin d. Eleanor was the niece of theodore roosevelt the 26th u s. Anna eleanor roosevelt ˈ ɛ l ɪ n ɔːr ˈ r oʊ z ə v ɛ l t. Brandeis university massachusetts you hear people say why hasn t the united nations done this or that the united nations functions just as well as the member nations make it function and no better or worse.

Eleanor roosevelt american first lady 1933 45 the wife of franklin d. And so the first thing to look at is i think the kind of machinery that was set up and what it was meant to do. As a child she was privately tutored by her aunt and at 15 she was sent to allenswood boarding academy a finishing school for girls where she stayed until 1902 when she returned to america. October 11 1884 november 7 1962 was an american political figure diplomat and activist.

Truman after the death of her husband president franklin d. She was one of the world s most widely admired and powerful women. Anna eleanor roosevelt october 11 1884 november 7 1962 was an american political figure diplomat and human rights activist. Roosevelt presidential library and museum of the national archives and records administration 1941 10 05 from the collection of.

Eleanor roosevelt the united nations. Born on 11 october 1884 in new york new york united states anna eleanor roosevelt was the former first lady of the united states a diplomat and humanitarian and was widely admired around the world. What eleanor roosevelt and the un s architects had not foreseen was that conflicts between nations would give way to civil unrest within nations and the persecution of minorities. This declaration may well become the international magna carta for all men everywhere.

President she married her distant cousin franklin d. Her advocacy of liberal causes made her a controversial figure. She served as the first lady of the united states from march 4 1933 to april 12 1945 during her husband president franklin d. On february 16 1946 facing the incredible violations of human rights that victims of world war ii suffered the united nations established a human rights commission with eleanor roosevelt as one of its members.