Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk.
Americans have always been ambivalent over negotiating with nations or regimes that are regarded as illegitimate and/or evil. If we do, we are implicitly recognizing them and if we don’t, there are few possibilities of reducing hostilities.
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, First Lady (Franklin Delano Roosevelt), U. S. Delegate to the United Nations, Quoted in New York Times 1960
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The quotation was made in the context of the Arab Israeli conflict, but the principle is general.
He was a realist who wanted to sue for peace before Germany was destroyed.
After 15 years under House Arrest by the Military running the country, under great US and World pressure and sanctions she was released, and her party won in a landslide in the first Democratic election the country experienced in many decades. When she assumed power, it was expected that she would change everything that the military government had done, but she was very judicious and changed the substantive issues leaving many of the symbolic u=issues in place.
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was an American political figure, diplomat and activist. She served as the First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1933, to April 12, 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four terms in office, making her the longest-serving First Lady of the United States. Roosevelt served as United States Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945 to 1952. President Harry S. Truman later called her the "First Lady of the World" in tribute to her human rights achievements.
