Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
I cannot believe that human beings live that way.
Franklin, then a Harvard student was courting Eleanor who had been working in a settlement house on the Lower East Side of New York. He visited her there and on this occasion a young girl had become very ill and Eleanor wanted to see her home and took Franklin along. This was his first experience with the living conditions of poor people.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1882-1945, 32nd President of the United States (Democrat, NY), Statement to Eleanor Roosevelt when she first took him to a slum, 1904
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II, which ended shortly after he died in office.
