On the recordOctober 5, 1940
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.
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presidency.ucsb.eduFDR: “It is an irony of our day that three-quarters of a century after the adoption of the Amendment forever outlawing slavery…”
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