| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 225 |
| AUTHOR: | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) |
| QUOTATION: | We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, letter to Dr. William Allan Neilson, January 9, 1940. The letter was read to the conference of the American Committee for Protection of Foreign-born, Washington, D.C., March 1, 1940.—The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1940, p. 36 (1941).
This sentence is one of many quotations inscribed on Cox Corridor II, a first floor House corridor, U.S. Capitol. |
| SUBJECTS: | Civilization |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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