[BITList] Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN in 1907.

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john

Think we should adopt this proposal

frank


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