I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of a mob or gives it any sort of countenance is no true son of this great democracy, but its betrayer.
Woodrow Wilson: “I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of a mob or gives it any sort of countenance is no true…”
On the recordJuly 25, 1918
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Statement Deploring Mob Spirit
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