Eleanor Roosevelt at the United Nations, 1947

ID: 325 ~ Source: "[Eleanor Roosevelt at United Nations, 1947.]" Image. From National Archives: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/196359 (accessed December 19, 2017). ~ Date: July 1947
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Eleanor Roosevelt serves as an ambassador for the United Nations Human Rights Commission.

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By Eleanor Roosevelt
"I have come this evening to talk with you on one of the greatest issues of our time—that is the preservation of human freedom. I have chosen to discuss it here in France, at the Sorbonne, because here in this soil the roots of human freedom…