"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 - 26th President of the United States (1901 - 1909)
from a letter he wrote to the president of the American Defense Society on January 3, 1919.
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Thank you, Mr. President.
Mamaditto has always been suspicious of multiculturalism. Hypenated Americans give me agita. When my cousin Larry in MI sent me this quote I was sooooo happy to know I was in such good company. TR has always been one of my favorites.
BTW, Mamaditto's husband is Puerto Rican and he agrees with me on this.
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