Every quiet, peaceable settler had either himself been grievously wronged, or had been an eye-witness to wrongs done to his friends; and while these were vivid in his mind, the corresponding wrongs done the Indians were never brought home to him at all.
Roosevelt reflects on the lack of awareness among settlers regarding the injustices faced by Native Americans.
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