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Teddy Roosevelt: “I believe in her rights just as much as I believe in the man’s, and indeed a little more; and I regard marriage as a…”

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I believe in her rights just as much as I believe in the man’s, and indeed a little more; and I regard marriage as a partnership in which each partner is in honor bound to think of the rights of the other as well as of his or her own.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt emphasizes the importance of mutual respect and rights in marriage.

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