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This 1907 photo to me is a perfect example of what it means to be an American, immigrant or naturally born citizen. I think in this case it can be said that Teddy said it best.
Pass this one on to everyone you know, especially the misguided liberals and illegal's screaming about racism, hatred and how American really belongs to Mexico when they are not sided with about amnesty and freely given citizenship after they show their total disregard for the United States, our Flag, our Laws and our Votes against illegal immigrants.
This article really needs to be shared with everyone you know.
The year is 1907, 103+ years ago.
READ PRINT UNDER PICTURE!
Republican President Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt indeed wrote these words below, but not in 1907 while he was still President of the United States. The passages were culled from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919, three days before Roosevelt died.
Theodore Roosevelt's ideas on Immigrants and being an AMERICAN.
'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
Every American citizen needs to read this!
"Americanization" was a favorite theme of Roosevelt's during his later years, when he railed repeatedly against "hyphenated Americans" and the prospect of a nation "brought to ruins" by a "tangle of squabbling nationalities."
He advocated the compulsory learning of English by every naturalized citizen. "Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or to leave the country," he said in a statement to the Kansas City Star in 1918. "English should be the only language taught or used in the public schools."
He also insisted, on more than one occasion, that America has no room for what he called "fifty-fifty allegiance." In a speech made in 1917 he said, "It is our boast that we admit the immigrant to full fellowship and equality with the native-born. In return we demand that he shall share our undivided allegiance to the one flag which floats over all of us."
Fact Checking, Sources and Further Reading
- http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/r/roosevelt-immigration.htm
- http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/troosevelt.asp
- Theodore Roosevelt on Americanism
Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia (revised second edition), Hart and Ferleger, ed., Theodore Roosevelt Association: 1989 - Theodore Roosevelt on Immigrants
Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia (revised second edition), Hart and Ferleger, ed., Theodore Roosevelt Association: 1989 - Theodore Roosevelt
Passage quoted in biography by Edmund Lester Pearson - To 'Possess the National Consciousness of an American'
Passage quoted by Dr. John Fonte, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, 2000 - Timeline of Theodore Roosevelt's Life
Theodore Roosevelt Association
