Every day Rogers expressed his caring for each child and his appreciation of their uniqueness. Rogers once said, "I must be an emotional archaeologist because I keep looking for the roots of things. Particularly the roots of behavior and why I feel certain ways about certain things" (Fred Rogers Pp). David Newell, who played Mr. McFeely on the show, said of Rogers, "He was so genuinely, genuinely kind, a wonderful person...His mission was to work with families and children for television...That was his passion, his mission, and he did it from Day One" (Mister Pp). It was quoted that Rogers was, "always gentle, always courteous, always a role model" (Mister Pp). Frazier Moore writes that the beauty of Rogers was "he went on TV to tell kids: Love yourself for who you are" (Moore Pp).

When Fred Rogers died in 2003, Scott Simon remarked that Rogers' voice never seemed louder than a lullaby and that Rogers had told him that he tried to keep in mind that millions of children who watched him might not have heard a kind word all day (Simon Pp). Rogers was a true humanitarian.

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