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Calvin Coolidge: “Not only their remarkable progress, their devotion and their loyalty, but, our duty to ourselves under our claim that we…”

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Not only their remarkable progress, their devotion and their loyalty, but, our duty to ourselves under our claim that we are an enlightened people requires us to use all our power to protect them from the crime of lynching.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Coolidge highlights the moral obligation to protect marginalized communities from violence, specifically lynching.

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