It Is My Belief...
and I am sure it is also yours, that the struggle for democracy and freedom is a critical struggle, for their preservation is essential to the great objective of the United Nations to maintain international peace and security.
Among free men the end cannot justify the means.
We know the patterns of totalitarianism — the single political party, the control of schools, press, radio, the arts, the sciences, and the church to support autocratic authority.
These are the age-old patterns against which men have struggled for three thousand years.
These are the signs of reaction, retreat, and retrogression.
The United Nations must hold fast to the heritage of freedom won by the struggle of its people
It must help us to pass it on to generations to come.
The development of the ideal of freedom and its translation into the everyday life of the people in great areas of the earth is the product of the efforts of many peoples.
It is the fruit of a long tradition of vigorous thinking and courageous action.
No one race and on one people can claim to have done all the work to achieve greater dignity for human beings and great freedom to develop human personality.
In each generation and in each country there must be a continuation of the struggle and new steps forward must be taken since this is preeminently a field in which to stand still is to retreat.
American Political Figure, Diplomat, Activist, and First Lady of the United States (1884 - 1962)
From Eleanor Roosevelt's speech "The Struggle for Human Rights" delivered on September 28, 1948 in Paris, France
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
- Aristotle
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