The Japanese have won in a single generation the right to stand abreast of the foremost and most enlightened peoples of Europe and America; they have won on their own merits and by their own exertions the right to treatment on a basis of full and frank equality.
Roosevelt asserts that Japan has earned equal standing among the world's enlightened nations through its own efforts.
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