Eleanor Roosevelt

"The basis of world peace is the teaching which runs through almost all the great religions of the world. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." Christ, some of the other great Jewish teachers, Buddha, all preached it. Their followers forgot it. What is the trouble between capital and labor, what is the trouble in many of our communities, but rather a universal forgetting that this teaching is one of our first obligations."

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Source: Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Political Activist, Diplomat

Eleanor Roosevelt was a prominent political figure and activist, known for her role in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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