"Every great crisis in American history has thus far had the moral result of increased protection and increased libert…"

"The translation into law of the new concepts of religious and economic liberty was not easily achieved any more than …"

"No discrimination was shown by the Japanese enemy in his treatment of the Negro or the Jew or the Mexican or the so-c…"

"These senators, recognizing that the tide of human progress has out-paced them, would try to stem its onrush by the e…"

"What we want most now is action. We know that practices growing out of discrimination and intolerance, which are thor…"

"We have just fought a great war to a successful conclusion. It would be a national disaster and humiliation if those …"

"It is most regrettable that some persons think that it was all well and good to use such men and call upon them to ma…"

"Mr President, what about those promises? Were they supposed to be made but not to be kept"

"If the Constitution is worth anything, if the Declaration of Independence is worth anything, if the boys who died on …"

"of all the issues confronting our country today, the issue of racial and religious discrimination is at once the most…"