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Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor Roosevelt

Book by Eleanor Roosevelt · 4 quotes · Humans, Rights, Church

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“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 ... 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.”

“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home.”

“Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money.”