FDR: “The cost of having our children brought up, not as free and dignified…”

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The cost of having our children brought up, not as free and dignified human beings, but as pawns molded and enslaved by a machine.

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Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt critiques the idea of raising children in a dehumanizing, controlled environment.

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