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FDR: “The future, however, rests not on chance alone, not on mere conservatism, mere smugness, mere fatalism, but on the…”

On the recordDecember 4, 1938
The future, however, rests not on chance alone, not on mere conservatism, mere smugness, mere fatalism, but on the affirmative action which we take in America.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Address at University of North Carolina

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