Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty.
Interpretation
Labor Day represents the struggle for economic equality and its connection to political freedom.
In this quote, Franklin D. Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of economic freedom as a foundation for true political freedom. He suggests that the rights and opportunities for the average worker are essential for democracy to function effectively, highlighting the interconnection between economic rights and political empowerment.
In practice
During a Labor Day speech to emphasize the importance of workers' rights.
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.
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.
Those religions that are oppressive to women are also against democracy, human rights, and freedom of expression.
With neoliberalism discredited and austerity failed, we need to rewrite the rules of the economy once again. But this time in the right way. We need rules that focus on long-term economic growth, and the only kind of sustainable prosperity is shared prosperity.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
Irreverence is the lifeblood of freedom.
We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.
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