When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
Today it is becoming increasingly apparent to thoughtful Americans that we cannot fight the forces and ideas of imperialism abroad and maintain any form of imperialism at home. The war has done this to our thinking. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
But we cannot just take this historical fact for granted. We must make it live. Wendell Willkie Read Quote
