Eleanor Roosevelt pt 4: "Then remaining silent is cowardly."

"If silence seems to give approval then remaining silent is cowardly." - Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day September 1944.

And now, dear listeners, C takes us on a voyage through the final years of Eleanor's life. From being a delegate at the first ever UN, to becoming the strongest champion for human right's we have ever witnessed. Eleanor took on huge challenges, built bridges, and never, ever stopped speaking out for what was right. She wrote more, politicked more, and in the end left a legacy of activism that would be a fine example for us all to follow. It only seems fitting to include one more quote from her:

"Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down." - Eleanor Roosevelt.

Resources:

Eleanor and Hick: the Love Affair that Shaped a First Lady by Susan Quinn

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/11/22/the-first-kitchen

https://erpapers.columbian.gwu.edu/browse-my-day-columns (for the My Day column specifically)

If You Ask Me: Essential Advice from Eleanor Roosevelt, ed by Mary Jo Binker

Dinner with the President by Alex Prud’Homme

Eleanor in the Village: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Search for Freedom and Identity in New York’s

Greenwich Village. By Jan Jarboe Russell

Eleanor Roosevelt, vols 1-3, Blanche Wiesen Cook

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt

https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/timeline/

Ken Burns’ documentary, The Roosevelts

https://considerthesourceny.org/document/your-hands-guide-community-action

https://www.fdrlibrary.org/documents/356632/390886/sears.pdf