"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, 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 |
