"Freedom means the supremacy of human rights..." - Quote by Franklin D Roosevelt
Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere. Our support goes to those who struggle to gain those rights or keep them.
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“Buying and selling securities on the Stock Exchange do not start new industries. Big business never starts anything new. It merely absorbs, consolidates and profits at the expense of others.”
“No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.”
“The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.”
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“As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.”
“Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.”
“Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that.”
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“Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.”
“As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance.”
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”