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Eleanor Roosevelt

Noun

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wife of Franklin Roosevelt and a strong advocate of human rights (1884-1962)

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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it. Marian Wright Edelman

I learned the power of radio watching Eleanor Roosevelt do her show. I used to go up to Hyde Park and hold her papers. I was just a messenger, but it planted the bug of radio in me. Allen Funt

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on. Christine Quinn

When women were excluded from New Deal programs, Eleanor Roosevelt fought to include them. Roosevelt was among a handful of leaders who realized the U.S. economy would not escape the depths of recession without the full contributions of women. Lael Brainard

The Eleanor Roosevelt Award that I received for women's rights activities is one I treasure. Patty Duke

Eleanor Roosevelt said it best: "Do what you feel in your heart to be right-for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”. Robert Kiyosaki

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