#roosevelt

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#life

Roosevelt spoke eloquently, in his penetrating tenor, of those 'who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life . . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished,' he told the audience, '. . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. ↗

— Susan Quinn

#government #inauguration #progress #roosevelt #wpa

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That's why we call it the present. ↗

— A.A. Milne

#recycled-by-bil-keane #recycled-by-eleanor-roosevelt #children

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' ↗

— Joe Biden

#crashed #franklin #franklin roosevelt #got #greed

They knew that Roosevelt and the Democratic party made a difference on them, on their quality of life issues, and they believed in that. But today it is completely different. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#completely #democratic #democratic party #difference #different

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. ↗

— Patty Duke

#award #eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #i #received

I think we have to be fair in saying at this point that neither Roosevelt nor Lewis realized the peril to which they were exposing both the unions and the country. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#country #exposing #fair #i #i think

The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#campaign #dollars #group #half #him

I even asked Eleanor Roosevelt difficult questions and she loved it. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#difficult #eleanor #eleanor roosevelt #even #i

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#because #boston #came #delano #different