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12 poignant quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt

Published 10:37 AM EDT, Tue October 21, 2014
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt courts Eleanor Roosevelt on Campobello Island, 1904.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt courts Eleanor Roosevelt on Campobello Island, 1904.
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Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York, 1920.
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Eleanor Roosevelt in Hyde Park, New York, 1920.
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Roosevelt making an address at the headquarters of the American Red Cross at Washington DC appealing for donations to a Red Cross War Relief drive in 1940.
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Roosevelt making an address at the headquarters of the American Red Cross at Washington DC appealing for donations to a Red Cross War Relief drive in 1940.
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Giving a speech, October 8,1946.
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Giving a speech, October 8,1946.
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As a representative to the United Nations, Roosevelt listens through headphones during a conference at the temporary UN headquarters at Lake Success, New York in 1946.
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As a representative to the United Nations, Roosevelt listens through headphones during a conference at the temporary UN headquarters at Lake Success, New York in 1946.
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Eleanor and  her dog 'Fala' in Hyde Park New York, circa 1947.
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Eleanor and her dog 'Fala' in Hyde Park New York, circa 1947.
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Holding up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
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Holding up the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.
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Boarding a plane in the early 1950s.
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Boarding a plane in the early 1950s.
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Attending a Wiltwyck School picnic in 1954.
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Attending a Wiltwyck School picnic in 1954.
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Visiting a camp for Jewish children, March 13, 1955.
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Visiting a camp for Jewish children, March 13, 1955.
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Eleanor Roosevelt circa 1960.
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Eleanor Roosevelt circa 1960.
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Roosevelt with presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, 1960.
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Roosevelt with presidential candidate John F. Kennedy, 1960.
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