The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (Primary source)
Eleanor’s comprehensive life story, from shy childhood to global human rights champion, chronicling her transformation during FDR’s presidency and her post-White House work, including her role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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“There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt Primary source“Example is the best lesson there is.”
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“Do not do that which you would not have known.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“The man who is good at making an excuse, is seldom good at any thing else.”
— Benjamin Franklin Secondary source“The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source