These quotes are from the walls of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. as I photographed them on September 30, 2004. These are words our children must learn as many of us did while in school.
They hold just as true today as they did sixty years ago.

"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"No Country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources. Demoralization caused by vast unemployment is our greatest extravagance. Morally, it is the greatest menace to our social order."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I never forget that I live in a house owned by all the American people and that I have been given their trust."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I propose to create a Civilian Conservation Corps to be used in simple work...more important, however, than the material gains will be the moral and spiritual value of such work."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We must scrupulously guard the civil rights and civil liberties of all citizens, whatever their background.

We must remember that any oppression, any injustice, any hatred, is a wedge designed to attack our civilization."

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intollerance, and slavery, and war."

Franklin D. Roosevelt