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Every violent man in the community is encouraged by every case of lynching in which the lynchers go unpunished to himself take the law into his own hands whenever it suits his own convenience.
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Roosevelt highlights the dangerous precedent set by lynching, encouraging individuals to take the law into their own hands.
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