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Roosevelt On September 28, 1948, Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady and delegate of the United Nations, delivered a speech entitled, “The Struggle for Human Rights.” This speech was delivered at the Sorbonne in Paris, France an audience of thousands of French citizens and delegates of the United Nations. “The Struggle for Human Rights,” dealt with the struggle toward universal acceptance of human rights from those states that were considered, by the United Nations and Roosevelt, non-compliant. Those non-complaint states consisted of, U.S.S.R., Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, and other member states, who had refused to accept the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, thus denying every human being fundamental rights and freedoms. This declaration was written with the intent to unify all nations through common terms and principles surrounding the issues of human rights and freedoms. Roosevelt felt she must persuade those non-compliant countries to come to and understanding of the fundamental principles agrees upon by the United Nations through means of establishing unification with her democratic audience. As former First Lady and a United Nations delegate, Eleanor Roosevelt was widely known for her “unparalleled humanitarian convictions” (1998, par 6) and for being “the driving force behind the Universal rights, human, speech, audience, nations, roosevelt, united, through, freedoms, terms, states, universal, struggle, roosevelt’s, credibility, purpose, issue, declaration, ussr, toward, speaker, rhetorical, prior, principles, political, fundamental, eleanor, common, arrangement, values, totalitarian, sense, rhetoric, people