I admired Theodore Roosevelt. He had definite views. We need another Roosevelt in the White House today.
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
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Comments: 15
I kinda like the mix of languages...
the right to wave any flag I choose
seems to me there's enough room.
I thought being American was having the freedom to choose.
Not a bad quote
...he just sounds a tad like Bush
"You're either with us!
Or against us!"
And I apply it to all equally.
Kris saying we have a right to wave any flag, speak any language, etc., is a little misled. Yes, there are those rights. At the same time, you should have loyalty and love for YOUR country. If you immigrate to a country for the sole purpose of taking advantage of its resources and opportunities while insisting on demanding that you retain loyalty and identity with your old country, why are you immigrating in the first place?
Go home, unless you want your home to be here...
Freedom has its own restrictions.