Eleanor Roosevelt Speeches

The Democratic Party's position on civil rights is very clear. Our democratic candidate for the presidency, Mr. Adlai Stevenson, has stated that if elected, he would consider himself bound to live up to the Constitution of the United States. The Supreme Court decision is the law of the land. Now, in that decision, it was very clearly stated that desegregation in the schools was to be carried on with all possible expedition. That does not mean, however, that everywhere it can be done in the same length of time. It means that we will.