Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.Eleanor Roosevelt
“Understanding is a two-way street.”
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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