Grassroots Rally Team

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 shal l
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