Teddy Roosevelt: “What we should desire to find out is the individual quality of the…”

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What we should desire to find out is the individual quality of the individual man.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt insists on assessing the individual qualities of each immigrant rather than generalizing based on group identity.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “What we should desire to find out is the individual quality of the individual man.”