"Eleanor Roosevelt is my 'mentor'." The more I learn about her, the more I'm inspired to be myself and to stick up for myself. She sent a really powerful message." —cl-looknup

Wife of President Franklin Roosevelt and considered America's most influential First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt was a driving force behind the adoption in 1948 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.


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