Eleanor Roosevelt -"First Lady of the World"

This photograph was taken on July 20, 1933.

Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson in 1939.

Eleanor Roosevelt with the finished Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

"Where, after all, do universal 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 seek 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 speaking at the United Nations Committee for Human Rights on March 27, 1958