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FDR: “When you talk with our young men and our young women, you will find they want to work for themselves and for their…”

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When you talk with our young men and our young women, you will find they want to work for themselves and for their families; they consider that they have the right to work; and they know that after the last war their fathers did not gain that right.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts the right to work as a fundamental expectation of young Americans after the war.

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