You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Though widely respected in her later years Roosevelt was a controversial First Lady for her outspokenness particularly for her stands on racial issues. She pressed the US to join and support the United Nations and became one of its first delegates. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (/ˈɛlɨnɔr ˈroʊzəvɛlt/; October 11 1884 – November 7 1962) was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States holding the post from 1933 to 1945 during her husband Franklin D.