Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
On May 8, 1961, Eleanor Roosevelt discussed Alan Shepard’s space flight in her “My Day” column:
“Commander Alan Shepard’s flight into space was exciting news. For us this is the beginning of more and more experiments until the day comes when we will know whether there is human life on the stars and what it is like, if so.
I must say, however, that this seems to me some time off. I am still more concerned with what happens to us here on earth and what we make of our life here than I am about these remarkable experiments. I know they have great value, and undoubtedly important discoveries arising from these experiments will help us here on earth. But I hope we are particularly careful not to send our man into orbit as the Russians did until we are sure that the return has been safeguarded as far as is humanly possible. The differences between our system and that of the Russians is a regard for human life, and I do not want to see us lose any of this regard.”
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
On April 30, 1945, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column:
“Looking at the war-torn world of today, we cannot say that our civilization has been perfect. We can only say that we have created greater material comfort for human beings and that we are struggling to find a way of living together peacefully and cooperatively in the future.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
On April 28, 1949, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote about Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman in her “My Day” column:
“I would not choose [Death of a Salesman] as entertainment or for its moral lesson. That lesson, in more realistic style, you can find in many an American community. I think I like it better when it points to the fact that a man, if finally brought forth to face the truth, can pick himself up and create a different ending.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
On April 18, 1938, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column:
“Anything repeated over and over again brings people to the point where they are stale and need a change of environment to vary their thoughts.”
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On April 11, 1962, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column:
“To have a friend who knows you by name gives you a sense that you are not alone in the world.”
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
Although Eleanor Roosevelt knew that taxes were a necessary source of revenue for carrying out government programs, she believed it was important to keep taxes relatively low, because high taxes would have negative repercussions. On November 15, 1940, she wrote in her “My Day” column:
“Excessive taxes produce three results as sure as sunrise. They reduce total revenue because they invariably increase all prices, and reduce production and employment.
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On April 1, 1939, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column:
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.”
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On March 28, 1941, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column:
“Marriages and the upbringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career.”
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On March 27, 1958, in her “My Day” column, Eleanor Roosevelt printed a letter she had written to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev on October 5, 1957:
“Not the people, but the governments, make war. And then they persuade the people that it is in a good cause, the cause of their own defense.”
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Posted by Tara Koellhoffer
On March 26, 1936, Eleanor Roosevelt wrote in her “My Day” column:
“As I . . . looked at the people who in spite of their handicap were doing so much, I could not help but think of what an obligation their example put on the rest of us.”