Most significant positive evidence
The strongest evidence concerns sustained advocacy for universal rights, racial equality, women, workers, refugees and people excluded from political power.
Person
Eleanor Roosevelt
The assessment covers civil rights advocacy, women's equality, relief work, democratic participation and Eleanor Roosevelt's central role in drafting and securing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
This is a contemporary assessment current to 26 June 2026. It must be revised as later conduct and evidence become available.
Ethical assessment categories
Current published result
Overall ethical score
+84.25
Reasoned summary
Roosevelt converted exceptional access to power into persistent advocacy for people with less power. Her leadership on the Universal Declaration gave her work durable global consequences.
This assessment presents six separate ethical dimensions rather than one overall moral score. Each result must be read with its evidence, plausible range, confidence, disputes, exclusions, severe-harm findings and sources.
Most significant negative evidence
The score is moderated by the limits of influence without executive authority and by compromises made while working inside administrations that retained segregation and other injustices.
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Six-dimensional ethical profile
The overall figure is the equal-weight average of the applicable dimensions. It does not replace the separate scores, evidence or uncertainty.
- Personal moral conduct
- +85.00
- Rights and dignity
- +87.59
- Nonviolence and harm
- +85.00
- Stewardship of power
- +80.00
- Wisdom and truthfulness
- +80.32
- Consequential legacy
- +87.56
- Severe-harm record
- No separate finding recorded
Assessment history
Ethical assessment: Eleanor Roosevelt (1933–1962)
1933–1962 · Published assessment · reviewed June 26, 2026
Result: Six-dimensional ethical profile