The year is 1907.....but the speaker knew
what he was talking about.
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!
