Where, after all, do ...

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. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
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. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.
 Eleanor Roosevelt

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One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
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Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.
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Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
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With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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