Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes
You sometimes find something good in the lunatic fringe. In fact, we have got as part of our social and economic government today a whole lot of things which in my boyhood were considered lunatic fringe, and yet they are now part of everyday life.
The headline was an eyecatcher. The small type went on to say that all kinds of germs and other things can grow in a washroom if everything is not kept dry. At the time there was a national fear of anarchists and we were in the midst of a red scare.
Note that at the time feminism was classified with the other “radical”, dangerous isms. Also, many people just did not take any of these movements seriously. The perception was that the advocates were mentally unbalanced.
This was a time when less than 10 percent of the American population approved of Congress and over 50 percent approved of gay marriage.
He was representing the Muslims of India. These are the descendants of the millions of Muslims who preferred to remain in majority Hindu India rather than join the new Islamic state of Pakistan. There are almost as many Muslims today in India as there are Muslims in Pakistan and more than there are in the Arab countries. However, unlike Pakistan, India is a democracy. However, the Indian Islamic leaders question whether or not they can turn the Islamic vision into a lasting Islamic culture without the force and power of the state. Only Turkey amongst the Islamic countries has been able to maintain an Islamic culture without using the political and legal force of the state to do it. But many Islamic orthodox thinkers believe that the Islamic culture in Turkey has been weakening over the years. Essentially, their concept of a permanent and stable Islamic culture requires the force of the state as that has been the historical experience. So there is constant pressure on the Indian government to pass laws that (for Muslims) enforce or require certain aspects of Islam, like parts of Sharia law while most Indian politicians are committed to maintaining a democracy with a separation of church and state.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A member of the Democratic Party, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the first half of the 20th century. Roosevelt directed the federal government during most of the Great Depression, implementing his New Deal domestic agenda in response to the worst economic crisis in U.S. history. As a dominant leader of his party, he built the New Deal Coalition, which defined modern liberalism in the United States throughout the middle third of the 20th century. His third and fourth terms were dominated by World War II, which ended shortly after he died in office.
