Ku Klux Klan

I had read stories in the papers, when one set of the Ku Klux Klan was quarrelling over money with another set, of such appalling cruelties committed by these people, and committed on persons who apparently were exactly my particular type, that I did not realise how much the prevalence of such lynchings and and floggings depended upon the character of the Governor of the particular State. (Autobiography)

(During Roosevelt's era) I find it difficult to imagine for instance a renewal of the activities of the Ku Klux Klan, activities which carried with them that peculiar ghastliness, that sort of phantasmagoric horror which is a unique accompaniement of physical brutality in America. (Autobiography)