Subject: 1907
The year is 1907, one hundred years ago......
>>
>> Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an
>> AMERICAN in 1907.
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>> "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
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>> Every American citizen needs to read this!
>>