“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Letter to Walter Francis White, president of the NAACP (25 June 1938)
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