Person after person has said to me in these last few days that this new world we face terrifies them. I can understand how that feeling would arise unless one believes that men are capable of greatness beyond their past achievements. … The time now calls for mankind as a whole to rise to great heights. We must have faith or we die.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) First Lady of the US (1933-45), politician, diplomat, activist

“My Day” (10 Aug 1945)

After the dropping of the atomic bomb.