. . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-…
. . . I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope—because the Nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country’s interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful, law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. . . . —President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, January 20, 1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt addressed the situation described in this speech by