Given the title of this blog, let me share something that might surprise you: Eleanor Lives! does not change the world. Rather, Eleanor Lives! provides something into which the change afoot in the world can flow.
It’s an important distiction. 
If you put Eleanor, Martin Luther King and Gandhi in a room and asked them if they “changed the world”, in their humble way, they would likely respond “No.” They would explain that the forces for change, the current of humanity, were moving swiftly and they helped provide movements into which that current could flow.
Gandhi argued that the domination of colonialism must end; the colonized peoples were ready to flow into independence. King argued that discrimination was bankrupt, imoral, counterproductive and must end; those segregated flowed into a message of love and integration. Eleanor argued that rights belong to every human being, regardless of nationality, and that despotism must end through rights for all; humanity flowed into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Eleanor Lives! facilitatates the uniting of all these movements, and others. It does not represent a single leader who will “will change the world” but helps unite all leaders, be they a server in a restaurant, a teacher in a classroom, an inspiring musician, or President of a country – 
all help the current of humanity flow into an International Bill of Rights and “change the world” by creating well-being for all.
Humanity is ready to live together as an international community. Not everyone in a community gets along -be it a community of a few city blocks or international one. There will always be disagreements and some who abuse others, it’s human, and communities are comprised of humans. It takes the rule of law to temper the worst and bring out the best.
Fortunately the rule of law runs deep in the current of humanity and is moving swiftly towards integration, in marriage, travel, the intertwining of culture (not the replacement of it) and the desire for fundamental rights such as equality, a good education, and the ability to speak one’s mind.
Sure, there is a cacophony of voices in the current, but if we listen closely enough, to each other, and to nature, including the water that flows near and around us, like 
Siddhartha, the ferryman, we can hear something in common – laughter – and feel something in common, love.
Eleanor Lives! is something into which this current can flow: that collective force is what will change the world, not for some, but for all.
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