As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race, fortune, creed or color. We forfeit the right so to speak when we commit or condone such crimes as these of which I speak.


Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

Theodore Roosevelt Quotes

As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race,...

As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race,...

As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race,...

As a people we claim the right to speak with peculiar emphasis for freedom and for fair treatment of all men without regard to differences of race,...