When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of … - Eleanor Roosevelt

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When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else … you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being.

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About Eleanor Roosevelt

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (11 October 1884 – 7 November 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, social activist. and first lady (as the wife of US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt).

Biography information from Wikiquote · Portrait adapted from Wikimedia Commons, FDR Presidential Library & Museum (CC BY)

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Birth Name: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Alternative Names: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt First Lady of the world Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt Elaenore Roosevelt Anna Roosevelt

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