Tao Te Ching
Rosalynn Carter
1927 – 1923 CE
Insightful and compassionate politician
Oldest living First Lady, author of 5 books, strong supporter of equal rights, and active member of the Carter administration; Rosalynn Carter disdained the role of traditional First Lady and was criticized by members of her own party who believed “women are meant to be kept at home and that's all." Instead, she broke the molds confining presidents’ wives to being only official hostesses. For only the second time in history for a First Lady, she appeared before Congress to testify, in this case for a new Mental Health System bill. A strong voice against Ronald Regan who she believed was ruining the country, she promoted peace in Israel, human rights in Brazil, help for refugees from Pol Pot, and Habitat for Humanity. Not afraid to disagree with her husband on policy issues, she actively disagreed and argued with him during his time as president and up to recent times disagreeing with him about Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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Quotes by Rosalynn Carter (5 quotes)
“For every person who needs mental health care to be able to receive it close to his home, and to remove the stigma from mental health care so people will be free to talk about it and seek help. It's been taboo for so long to admit you had a mental health problem.”
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“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.”
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“You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through. If you accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.”
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“I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.”
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“If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.”
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Quotes about Rosalynn Carter (1 quotes)
“It’s not hard to believe that Eleanor would have been a better president than FDR, Pat better than Richard, Rosalyn better than Jimmy, Nancy better than Ronald, Hillary better than Bill, Michele better than Barack… having such close-up views on the political and decision-making process without the starry-eyed hero-worship so quickly dissipated by marriage, gives First Ladies—like all marriage partners—very personal and rare insights into what not to do.”
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