08/08/2009 4:22 PM
Posted by Whitetigress
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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
