Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”

Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Yet they are the world of the individual person the neighbourhood he lives in the school or college he attends the factory, farm or office where he works. “Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.“The world of the future is in our making.For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, ‘It can’t be done.’” “Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.Just one step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.”

We do not have to become heroes overnight.

“Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.

At her memorial address at the UN General Assembly, Adlai Stevenson famously said, “She would rather light candles than curse the darkness and her glow had warmed the world.” In honor of such a trailblazer, here are 10 of our favorite Eleanor Roosevelt quotes. In 1968, she was posthumously awarded the UN Human Rights Prize. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere.” She was instrumental in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, presenting it to the General Assembly, saying, “We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and the life of all mankind. delegate to the United Nations General Assembly, as well as the first Chairperson of the UN Human Rights Commission in 1946. Saturday, November 7 will mark 53 years since the world lost an inspiring leader and major UN supporter, Eleanor Roosevelt.Įleanor Roosevelt was the “First Lady of the World,” according to President Harry S.

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