Read the passage from Eleanor Roosevelt's speech on the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
What message does Roosevelt want to convey to her
audience in this passage?
We stand today at the threshold of a great event both
in the life of the United Nations and in the life of
mankind. This Universal Declaration of Human Rights
may well become the international Magna Carta of all
men everywhere. We hope its proclamation by the
General Assembly will be an event comparable to the
proclamation of the Declaration of the Rights of Man
by the French people in 1789, the adoption of the Bill
of Rights by the people of the United States, and the
adoption of comparable declarations at different times
in other countries.
The amendments proposed by the Soviet Union
should be passed.
0 The UDHR will take the place of former declarations.
O The approval of the UDHR will be an important
historical event.
The adoption of comparable declarations should be
the priority