TEDDY ROOSEVELT THE AMERICAN CITIZEN

Jan 29th, 2008 10:45:06 pm - Subscribe
Mood: snazzy

This is just about the wisest thing I've read in years.

How the HELL did we get so far afield from logic like this???

The year is 1907, one hundred years ago......


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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