You are an important person just the way you are.
Where these words come from
- 55% sureLots of sources credit Fred Rogers with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Widely reported as Fred Rogers' 1979 congressional/court testimony in the Sony Betamax case; the Supreme Court's 1984 opinion (464 U.S. 417) paraphrases his testimony but does not contain this exact sentence — wording traces only to secondary retellings, no primary transcript located.
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