“As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race, fortune, creed or color. We forfeit the right so to speak when we commit or condone such crimes as these of which I speak.”

—  Theodore Roosevelt

1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

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American politician, 26th president of the United States 1858–1919

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