The Top Five Reasons Eleanor Roosevelt is the Strongest American Woman Ever 

1. Humanitarian:
   She led humanitarian efforts on behalf of children, the oppressed and the poor which have earned her the love of millions throughout the world.
2. Activist:
   Throughout her life, Eleanor Roosevelt supported movements for social change that presented radical challenges to prevailing attitudes and institutions: civil rights for black Americans, full equality for women, liberation for the world's subject peoples, a vision of the federal government as a positive, caring force for the betterment of its citizens' lives.
3. Human Rights:
   During World War 11, she expanded her activities to the world stage, working at the United Nations to help found UNICEF and establish the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
4. Advocate:
   She was an advocate for working women, blacks, youth, and tenant farmers- which Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal efforts to combat the Depression tended to neglect.
5. Influence:
   At her death in 1962, she was widely recognized as the twentieth
   century's most influential woman, and her reputation has continued to rise ever since. Few politicians, male or female, can match such a legacy.

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Is Eleanor Roosevelt the Strongest American-woman Ever?

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MrMarmalade says:

Definitely

Posted November 04, 2008

Spook says:

I really don't know too much about other American Women, but after reading your lens, it looks like she will be hard to beat. really enjoyed it, well done

Posted October 09, 2008

No way!

 

 

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Wise Words from Eleanor Roosevelt 

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

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Eleanor Roosevelt(1884 - 1962) Quick Facts
Birth:1884
Death:1962
Year Inducted:1973
Achievement In:Humanities
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