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Theodore Roosevelt

• Believed "nine out of ten" Native Americans should be killed, saying:

  "I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn’t like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."

• Thought granting the vote to Black people would "reduce parts of the South to the level of Haiti," saying:

  "The great majority of Negroes in the South are wholly unfit for suffrage"

• Stole 86 million acres of tribal land for the national forest system.
• In his book The Winning of the West, Roosevelt states:

  "The rude, fierce settler who drives the savage from the land lays all civilized mankind under a debt to him. [...] The victor, horrible though many of his deeds are, has laid deep the foundations for the future greatness of a mighty people. [...] It is of incalculable importance that America, Australia, and Siberia should pass out of the hands of their red, black, and yellow aboriginal owners, and become the heritage of the dominant world races."