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Harry Truman: “We must not tolerate such limitations on the freedom of any of our people and on their enjoyment of basic rights which…”

On the recordJune 28, 1947
We must not tolerate such limitations on the freedom of any of our people and on their enjoyment of basic rights which every citizen in a truly democratic society must possess.
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Harry Truman
Democratic · Missouri

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Address Before the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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