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.
There's an unwritten law that you cannot have a Jewish character in a film who isn't 100 percent perfect, or you're labeled anti-Semitic.
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
The Lord has said, βI have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction.β (Isaiah 48:10, 1 Nephi 20:10). He knows, being omniscient, how we will cope with affliction beforehand. But we do not know this. We need, therefore, the refining that God gives to us, though we do not seek or crave such tribulation.
There are forms of oppression and domination which become invisible - the new normal.
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