It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.Eleanor Roosevelt
“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
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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