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Franklin Roosevelt
@franklinroosevelt· Democratic · NY· Jun 7, 1942

With the united help of all free men and of all the great institutions of freedom, we shall create a new world in which there is freedom of worship and utterance, freedom from want and from fear, for all peoples everywhere in the world.

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Franklin Roosevelt
@franklinroosevelt· Democratic · NY· May 27, 1942

Upon you and upon your comrades in arms of all the United Nations depend the lives and liberties of all the human race.

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Vera Buchanan
@verabuchanan· Democratic · PA· Feb 14, 1859

I transmit herewith a report from the Attorney-General, in reply to the resolution of the House of Representatives adopted on the 22d ultimo, requesting the President of the United States to report what information has been received by him, if any, in regard to the recent importation of Africans into the State of Georgia or any other State of this Union, and what steps have been taken to bring to trial and punishment the persons engaged in this inhuman violation of the laws of the United States and to prevent similar violations hereafter.

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