Wednesday, May 7, 2014

Welfare Is Personally Destructive

The lessons of history, confirmed by evidence immediately before me show conclusively that continued dependence on relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre.  To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit.  It is inimical to the dictates of sound policy.  It is a violation of the traditions of America.


President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Cited by Taleeb Starkes, The Un-Civil War:  Blacks vs Niggers, p.136
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