Theodore Roosevelt Quote

US President
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