Teddy Roosevelt: “All thoughtful men must feel the gravest alarm over the growth of lynching in this country, and especially over the…”

“All thoughtful men must feel the gravest alarm over the growth of lynching in this country, and especially over the peculiarly hideous forms so often taken by mob violence when colored men are the victims—on which occasions the mob seems to lay most weight, not on the crime, but on the color of the criminal.”