Doffing The Ego's Safe Glory, He Finds

The Universal Declaration... As A Common Standard Of Achievement For All Peoples And All Nations...it Not Only Crystallizes The Political Thought Of Our Times On These Matters, But It Has Also Influenced The Thinking Of Legislators All Over The World.

Each Morning We Must Hold Out The Chalice Of Our Being To Receive, To Carry, And Give Back. It Must Be Held Out Empty - For The Past Must Only Be Reflected In Its Polish, Its Shape, Its Capacity.

Those Who Invoke History Will Certainly Be Heard By History. And They Will Have To Accept Its Verdict.

It Is Not The Repeated Mistakes, The Long Succession Of Petty Betrayals--though, God Knows, They Would Give Cause Enough For Anxiety And Self-contempt--but The Huge Elementary Mistake, The Betrayal Of That Within Me Which Is Greater Than I--in Complacent Adjustment To Alien Demands.

In The Presence Of God, Nothing Stands Between Him And Us - We Are Forgiven. But We Cannot Feel His Presence If Anything Is Allowed To Stand Between Ourselves And Others.