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 ...

Let us all, as Americans, unite in a solemn determination to defend and maintain and transmit to those who shall follow us the rich heritage...

It is a symbol of all that has been achieved by Negroes in the past three-quarters of a century—achievements that have enriched and enlarged...

How marvelous has been the advancement of your race, 'Up from Slavery,' to quote the title of a book which won universal admiration when the...