Franklin D. Roosevelt Quote

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization.


Greeting to the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born (January 9, 1940); later inscribed on the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial.


We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, ...

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, ...

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, ...

We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all our citizens, whatever their background. We must remember that any oppression, ...