“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”—United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights
(Today marks the 60th anniversary of the declaration. As president and most influential member of the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt believed this document was her most important personal achievement—and there is no doubt that it certainly marked the moment when she stepped out from under the shadow of her late husband and gained a political victory of her own. Sadly, however, her hope that the document “may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere” remains unfulfilled.)
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