| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 47005 |
| QUOTATION: | We are trying to construct a more inclusive society.... We are going to make a country in which no one is left out. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945), U.S. president. From a speech Secretary Perkins helped write. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew, p. 113, Harper Colophon Books, n.d..
This was FDR’s assessment of what New Deal social and economic programs aimed to achieve. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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