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Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small they cannot be seen on any maps of the world.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Topic: Society & Civil Religion

“Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and so small they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual persons; the neighborhoods; the school or college; the factory, farm or office. Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless their rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
American Civil Religion
Speech to United Nations delegates

Wilson, Andrew, editor. World Scripture II. Universal Peace Federation, 2011, p. 981 [Eleanor Roosevelt].

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt, former first lady of the United States and wife of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was a human rights activist who, as an American delegate to the United Nations in 1948, played a central role in shaping the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The real challenge, she liked to tell United Nations delegates in later years, was one of ”actually living and working in our countries for freedom and justice for each human being.”

–Richard N. Gardner [Eleanor Roosevelt’s Legacy: Human Rights (Published: December 10, 1988 in the New York Times)].

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