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Teddy Roosevelt: “Every farsighted friend of the colored race in its efforts to strive onward and upward, should teach first, as the most…”

On the recordDecember 18, 1906
Every farsighted friend of the colored race in its efforts to strive onward and upward, should teach first, as the most important lesson, alike to the white man and the black, the duty of treating the individual man strictly on his worth as he shows it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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