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Teddy Roosevelt: “Danger from religious antipathy is dead, and from sectional antipathy dying; but there are at times very ugly…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
Danger from religious antipathy is dead, and from sectional antipathy dying; but there are at times very ugly manifestations of antipathy between class and class.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

In an address on the strenuous life, Roosevelt observes the shift in sources of social division in America.

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