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“No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of its minorities.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Context

Letter to Walter Francis White, president of the NAACP (25 June 1938)

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Roosevelt, Franklin D.. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt

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