
"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
man's becoming in very fact 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,
and this
excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against
liberty and
civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign
flag of a
nation to which we are hostile...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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