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Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Age: 78 †
Born: 1884
Born: October 11
Died: 1962
Died: November 7
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Former First Lady Of The United States
Human Rights Activist
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Manhattan borough
New York City
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First Lady of the world
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I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people.
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The labor movement has a great role to play in our country today.
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Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!
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