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.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt Modern

US President during WWII

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Statement on Civil Rights

Date / Period

1944

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Controversial

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https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/statement-civil-rights

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