Oh, Teddy. You are so wise!

102 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