US President 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