1907 PHOTO This one needs
to circulate
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas
on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.
'In the first place, we
should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an
American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact
equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any
such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated
upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an
American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an
American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for
but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and
that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and
that is a loyalty to the American people.'
Theodore Roosevelt 1907
Every American citizen
needs to read this!
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