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Roosevelt speaking in 1907

by Mark5019 May 21, 2006 3:52AM PDT

>Roosevelt speaking in 1907

> 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!