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Apparently you don't understand the quote - and don't know who said it - and, got the quote wrong as well!

The quote refers to no man being able to live apart from mankind.

It wasn't Teddy Roosevelt who said it - it was John Donne, in his poem 'No Man is an Island'

No man is an island entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;
if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe
is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as
well as any manner of thy friends or of thine
own were; any man's death diminishes me,
because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

It was made very famous by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. June 1965, Oberlin Ohio

"Any man's death diminishes me, for I am a part of mankind" - powerful stuff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpw5UjybLh0
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It’s not a joke about him saying the quote It’s a joke about Roosevelt Island
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I suppose it makes sense if you completely discount the meaning of the phrase.....
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