We have the ability to structure our society in a way that gives people as rights, lives of dignity and fulfillment. You know, in 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt unveiled what he was going to call the Economic Bill of Rights in 1944. He felt strongly that while we had democratized our politics, we'd never democratized our economy. And because of that, we. We did not. We had not really finished the project of our revolutionary beginnings. (24:48–24:55)
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Asserts that FDR proposed an Economic Bill of Rights in 1944.
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