Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.Eleanor Roosevelt
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you will be criticized anyway.”
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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