The Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights was established in 1998 by the President of the United States Bill Clinton, honoring outstanding American promoters of rights in the United States.
The award was first awarded on the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, honoring Eleanor Roosevelt's role as the "driving force" in the development of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The award was presented from 1998 to the end of the Clinton Administration in 2001. In 2005 the American Rights at Work organization, issued the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.
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“I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people’s lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs me down because I can’t do some of the things I want.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
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Who all his life collected bones,
Till Death, that grim and boney spectre,
That universal bone collector,
Boned old Jones, so neat and tidy,
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—Anonymous. “Epitaph on William Jones,” from Eleanor Broughton’s Varia (1925)
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
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—Robert Graves (1895–1985)
“Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“Love your enemies. I saw this admonition now as simple, sensible advice. I knew I could face an angry, murderous mob without even the beginning of fear if I could love them. Like a flame, love consumes fear, and thus make true defeat impossible.”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 2, ch. 2 (1962)