Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Roger Nash Baldwin, 1884-1981, Founder, American Civil Liberties Union, Quoted on the ACLU Web Page
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Slogan that Theodore Roosevelt developed to go with this attempt to nominate Presidents with Primary Elections. Prior to his 1912 run for the Presidency, presidential nominees were selected by the delegates to the party national convention. Since then the parties have used various combinations of delegates that were bound by primary election results in their state and other delegates who could use their judgment. No combination has been totally satisfactory and both major American political parties tinker with the combination every four years.
Roger Nash Baldwin was one of the founders of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He served as executive director of the ACLU until 1950.
