Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you'll be criticized anyway.Eleanor Roosevelt
“In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”
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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