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There must be equal rights for all, and special privileges for none; but we must remember that to achieve this ideal it is necessary to construe rights and privileges very differently from the way they were necessarily construed, by statesmen and people alike, a century ago.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt stresses the need for equal rights without special privileges, while recognizing the need for a new interpretation of these concepts.

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