Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

"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 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."

"True democratic Government cannot long endure in the midst of widespread ignorance."

"The American Government...decided to reject that philosophy of inaction and irresponsibility and indifference to the destitution of its citizens."