We must show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men.
Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, known as Eleanor (October 11, 1884 – November 7, 1962), was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights.
After her husband’s death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. She was a suffragist who worked to enhance the status of working women, although she opposed the Equal Rights Amendment because she believed it would adversely affect women.
In the 1940s, she was one of the co-founders of Freedom House and supported the formation of the United Nations. Eleanor Roosevelt founded the UN Association of the United States in 1943 to advance support for the formation of the UN. She was a delegate to the UN General Assembly in 1945 and chaired the committee that drafted and approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
President Harry S. Truman called her the “First Lady of the World” in tribute to her human rights achievements. –Source: Wikipedia
The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt Statue at the FDR Memorial
The FDR Memorial, 1850 West Basin Drive SW, Washington, DC
The Memorial is located in DC’s SW Quadrant, along the SW shore of the Tidal Basin in West Potomac Park, near the intersection of Independence Avenue, West Basin Drive, and Ohio Drive, SW.
GPS Coordinates: 38.883625, -77.043868
There is no entrance fee and the Memorial is open to the public 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.
This Eleanor Roosevelt Memorial Statue is located in the fourth room of the FDR Memorial.
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National Park Service rangers are on duty to answer questions from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. daily and to provide interpretive programs every hour on the hour from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 p.m
In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt