Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote

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


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


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

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

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

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