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Teddy Roosevelt: Nothing else counts for as much in welding together into one compact mass of citizenship the different race stocks which…

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Nothing else counts for as much in welding together into one compact mass of citizenship the different race stocks which here are being fused into a new nationality.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

This quote highlights Roosevelt's belief in the importance of unity among diverse racial backgrounds in America.

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