My husband is a history
buff. There are countless documentaries awaiting him in My List on Netflix. More recommended each time we open the app: Because of your interest in. The other
night I plopped down at his side as he watched the conclusion of Ken Burns' The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
That's when I learned Eleanor
Roosevelt wrote a column called My Day six
days a week for twenty seven years between 1935 and 1962. On January 23, 1939
she wrote the quote below, a quote as fitting today as it was when it appeared
in her column seventy seven years ago, the eve of U.S. involvement in WWII.
...What has happened to us in this country? If we study our own history
we find that we have always been ready to receive the unfortunates from other
countries, and though this may seem a generous gesture on our part, we have
profited a thousand fold by what they have brought us.
2 comments:
I watched those documentaries and became a real fan of this wise, wise, forward thinking woman. great timely quote.
The more things change the more they stay the same, as the old saying goes.
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