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We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

We know that equality of individual ability has never existed and never will, but we do insist that equality of opportunity still must be sought.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Opportunity, Equality, Disability
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1938). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1936, Volume 5”, p.201, Best Books on

Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man not only enough to live by, but something to live for.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom, Opportunity, Men
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that economic slavery was nobody's business. They granted that the government could protect the citizen in his right to vote, but they denied that the government could do anything to protect the citizen in his right to work and his right to live. Today we stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Opportunity, Government, Average
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Freedom, Opportunity, Average
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy