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“And by laying the groundwork for a system centered on home ownership rather than the public housing popular in Europe, the New Deal made possible the great postwar housing boom that populated the Sun Belt and boosted millions of Americans into the middle class, where, ironically, they often became Republicans.”

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Author:Jonathan Alter

“[FDR] Roosevelt did issue an important executive order in 1941 creating the Fair Employment Practices Committee to combat discrimination in the defense industry, which avoided a threatened march on Washington led by the civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph. With Roosevelt’s death, on April 12 1945, and the assumption of the presidency by Vice President Harry Truman, civil rights leaders hoped that the new leader might be more willing to publicly embrace their cause.”

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Book:Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

Source: Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring

“An irrational fear is just as scary if not scarier than one that’s justified. FDR said, ‘The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,’ yet he was actually deathly afraid of the number thirteen.”

Fear Fdr The Number Thirteen

Book:In Limbo

Source: In Limbo

“Like Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, Jefferson kept his intimate feelings hidden from the public, either in triumph or in crisis.”

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Author:FAWN BRODIE

“Near the end of his life, Franklin Roosevelt said, "We have learned we cannot live alone, in peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community." The American people, in general, had learned no such things. They had learned that the oceans were shrinking, and that demons who had seemed far away in 1941 could be dangerous. It was not a sense of responsibility, but the shock of fPearl Harbor that brought the United States out into the world. If Americans had suddenly become the watchmen on the walls of freedom, it had been caused by necessity, never by choice.”

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Author:T. R. Fehrenbach

“Since our separation I have been spilling ink on lined pages, wondering what stopped working when the plates were put away and how many times we asked with water in our eyes what we wanted if it wasn’t art on the wall in the house by the sea?”

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Author:Raymond Antrobus

“If it has all happened that way, it is because Franklin D. Roosevelt is that way.”

Author:John T Flynn

“The attempt to interpret human behavior in terms of models derived from the natural sciences eventually destroys personal responsibility.”

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Book:Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

Source: Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture

“As with all semantic difficulties, the answer can only be arbitrary. What matters is that we know what kind of union we are talking about when we speak of love. Do we refer to love as the mature answer to the problem of existence, or do we speak of those immature forms of love which may be called symbiotic union?”

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Book:THE ART OF LOVING

Source: THE ART OF LOVING

“and, of course, the self-accursation, the faint heart, the frequent uncertainty and loss of time, which are the nettles and tangling vines in the way of the self-relying and self-directed; and the state of virtual hostility in which he seems to stand to society. For all this loss and scorn, what offset? He is to find consolation in exercising the highest functions of human nature. He is one who raises himself from private considerations and breathes and lives on public and illustrious thoughts. He is the world's eye.”

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Book:The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation

Source: The American Scholar: Self-Reliance, Compensation