I Embrace the term Liberal

There is a meme that has been going around with a quote by Eleanor Roosevelt. Here it is:

The quote is from the last book she wrote, “Tomorrow is Now: It Is Today That We Must Create the World of the Future,” that was published posthumously in 1963.
Here is the full quote from the book:

Long ago, there was a noble word, “liberal,” which derives from the word “free.” Now a strange thing happened to that word. A man named Hitler made it a term of abuse, a matter of suspicion, because those who were not with him were against him, and liberals had no use for Hitler. And then another man named McCarthy cast the same opprobrium on the word. Indeed, there was a time — a short but dismaying time — when many Americans began to distrust the word which derived from “free.” One thing we must all do. We must cherish and honor the word “free” or it will cease to apply to us. And that would be an inconceivable situation. This I know. This I believe with all my heart. If we want a free and a peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being — WE CAN DO IT!”

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