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God knows that any man who would seek the presidency of the United States is a fool for his pains. The burden is all but intolerable, and the things that I have to do are just as much as the human spirit can carry.

Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president. Remarks, November 12, 1914, to a delegation of African Americans at the White House. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson, vol. 31, p. 501, ed. Arthur S. Link.

Wilson was in a dialogue with African-American civil rights leaders led by William M. Trotter. Wilson felt his tolerating segregation in the federal government was forced upon him by a Democratic party dominated by Southern segregationists.

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