It is, I think, as I survey the picture from every angle, a
simple fact that the chief hindrance to progress comes from three elements
which, thank God, grow less in importance with the growth of a clearer
understanding of our purposes on the part of the overwhelming majority. These
groups are those who
seek to stir up political animosity or to build political advantage by the
distortion of facts; those who, by declining to follow the rules of the game,
seek to gain an unfair advantage over those who are willing to live up to the
rules of the game; and those few who, because they have never been willing to
take an interest in their fellow Americans, dwell inside of their own narrow
spheres and still represent the selfishness of sectionalism
which has no place in our national life.
-President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Memorial Day Address at Gettysburg, 1934, as culled from here
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