Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person. If you cannot imagine, "This might happen to me," you are able to say to yourself with indifference, "Who cares?"

Eleanor Roosevelt lived an astonishing life, an object lesson in service, determination, compromise, practical idealism…the list goes on and on! Fortunately for us, her life was also a well-documented one, thanks in no small part to the First Lady's prolific writing. What Are We For? gathers hundreds of her thoughts and observations on myriad topics: political leadership, civil liberties, women and work, racial and religious prejudice, becoming an individual, and more. Decades later, her words remain a clarion call for the importance of doing our part to make our communities a better place.