QuoteQuest“These dark days will be worth all they cost us if they teach us that our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
Part of this is often misquoted as "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," most notably by Martin Luther King, Jr. in his I've Been To The Mountaintop speech. Similar expressions were used in ancient times, for example by Seneca the Younger (Ep. Mor. 3.24.12): scies nihil esse in istis terribile
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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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