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Theodore Roosevelt on Immigration

Sturgis Sledder

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Got the pass it on email and low and behold it was true

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
 

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But he also speaks as an immigrant as there were aboriginies established here already. And this is something that the white man doesn't want you to know.
 
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history is written by the winners there marv... hate to say it, but, the indians lost and the colonials won... its the colonials country now... teddy couldn't have been president if he wasn't born here, therefore making him an aborigine also, no????
 
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But he also speaks as an immigrant as there were aboriginies established here already. And this is something that the white man doesn't want you to know.

what in the HELL are you talking about! i'm pretty sure that everyone on here knows that the aboriginies were here first. but that's also hundreds of years ago, so i think we can get past that point now
 
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Got the pass it on email and low and behold it was true

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

too bad no one in politics holds these kind of beliefs now. i couldnt agree more.
 
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