Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes About United Nations

Quotes about: United Nations

• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Rights, Today, Approval

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2009). “The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers”

• We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta for all men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the General Assembly will be an event comparable to the proclamation in 1789 [of the French Declaration of the Rights of Man], the adoption of the Bill of Rights by the people of the U.S., and the adoption of comparable declarations at different times in other countries.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Men, Rights

• The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Order, World, Opinion

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.211, Da Capo Press

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