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Teddy Roosevelt: “Such conduct is just as reprehensible in one case as in the other, and all honest and farseeing men should join in…”

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Such conduct is just as reprehensible in one case as in the other, and all honest and farseeing men should join in warring against it wherever it becomes manifest.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

He condemns reprehensible behavior regardless of the social class of the perpetrator.

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