Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

It is an irony of our day that three-quarters of a century after the adoption of the Amendment forever outlawing slavery under the American Flag, liberty should be under violent attack.

Context

Greeting on the Anniversary Celebration of the Thirteenth Amendment

10/05/1940

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