You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.Eleanor Roosevelt
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
— ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
Diplomat and activist · 1884 – 1962
Eleanor Roosevelt was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, from 1933 to 1945, and reinvented the role as a platform for civil rights and social reform. Afterward she became a US delegate to the United Nations and chaired the commission that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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