[Mb-civic] Immigration Wisdom in 1907

[Linda Hassler]

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The wisdom of our fathers

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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