Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"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 of freedom which is ours today."

"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 great Booker T. Washington gave it to the world nearly fort..."

"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 and ennobled our American life."

"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."