QUOTING ELEANOR

A New York Times reporter who was present

at the meeting of the UN's Commission of Human Rights meetings

wrote of the power Mrs. Roosevelt's personality had over

certain unreasonable diplomats.

"The Russians" seem to have met their match in Mrs. Roosevelt.

The proceedings sometimes turn into a long vitriolic attack on

the U.S. when she is not present. These attacks, however, generally denigrate into flurries

in the face of her calm and and undisturbed but often pointed replies.

"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 school or college he attends; the factory, farm,

or office where he works. Such are the places where every man, woman

and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity

without discrimination. Unless, these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere, without concerted citizen action to uphold them close to

home, we shall look in vain for progress

in the larger world.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT