Among American citizens, there should be no forgotten men and no forgotten races.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of inclusivity and recognition for all individuals and groups in society.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's quote highlights the moral responsibility of a society to acknowledge and support every citizen, regardless of their background or circumstances. It suggests that a truly equitable society must ensure that no individual feels ignored or marginalized, advocating for social justice and the protection of the rights of all people.
In practice
During a speech on social justice, this quote can be used to emphasize the need for awareness of marginalized groups.
There has been one persistent theme through all Axis propaganda. This theme has been that Americans are admittedly rich, that Americans have considerable industrial power - but that Americans are soft and decadent, that they cannot and will not unite and work and fight. ... Let them tell that to the Marines!
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns.
Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.
A world turned into a stereotype, a society converted into a regiment, a life translated into a routine, make it difficult for either art or artists to survive. Crush individuality in society and you crush art as well. Nourish the conditions of a free life and you nourish the arts, too.
The blind have no notion of time. The things of time are hidden from them too.
The real cause of hunger is the powerlessness of the poor to gain access to the resources they need to feed themselves.
Human beings have always been mythmakers.
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.
The provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
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