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It Seems to Me: Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt - Page 2
by Leonard C. Schlup
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International Organization and Conference Series: new series]., Issue 51

United States. Dept. of State - 1964 - 456 pages
...to the Declaration, once asked : "Where, after all, do universal rights begin?" And she answered : "In small places close to home, so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world . . . they are the world of the individual person . . . ." Let us, each of us, go...
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Human Rights: Thirty Years After the Universal Declaration : Commemorative ...

Bertrand G. Ramcharan - 1979 - 302 pages
...1958, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt asked where, after all, do universal human rights begin, and answered:8 In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighbourhood he lives in; the...
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Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Report Submitted to the Committee ...

1994 - 1466 pages
...Roosevelt in an address to the United Nations in 1958: "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. Yet, they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college...
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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations

Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 pages
...ed. John C. Hamilton, vol. 2, p. 80 (1850). 866 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 map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in; the...
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Oversight of the State Department's Country Reports on Human ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, International Organizations, and Human Rights - 1994 - 152 pages
...Roosevelt in an address to the United Nations in 1958: "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home — so close and so...that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet, they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college...
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Human Rights of Women: National and International Perspectives

Rebecca J. Cook - 1994 - 662 pages
...characterization of women's political and civil rights: Where after all, do universal human rights begin? 1n small places, close to home — so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any map of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person: the neighborhood he lives in: the...
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Educating for Human Dignity: Learning about Rights and Responsibilities

Betty Reardon - 1995 - 264 pages
...to say about the importance of universal human rights." Where, after all, do universal rights begin? In small places, close to home— so close and so...that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person; the neighborhood he lives in; the school or college...
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Families Across Frontiers

Nigel Vaughan Lowe, Gillian Douglas - 1996 - 902 pages
...rights machinery, Eleanor Roosevelt. She observed, '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 . . . Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning elsewhere.'37 14 See generally,...
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The Hate Crimes Statistics Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on the Constitution - 1996 - 72 pages
...millions of tiny actions to make them real. "Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?" she said. "In small places, close to home — so close and so...that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. * * * Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Unless we address...
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Women's Words: The Columbia Book of Quotations by Women

Mary Biggs - 1996 - 544 pages
...it was organized by the Citizens' Suffrage AssociaWhere, 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 map of the world. Yes they are the world of the individual persons: The neighborhood he lives in; the...
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