Thread: A reminder of Teddy Roosevelts 1907 speach

"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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Well said in one paragraph. I just wish McCain and Obama would do a little reading of history.

OH no is Teddy a racists or xenophobe?????????

Love Teddy

One of our better Presidents (IMHO).

I can't help but wonder how different things would be if he could have miraculously 'come back' and been our President the last 8 years - instead of the village buffoon we got stuck with....

What is the "red flag" he's talking about? This is 1907, before Lenin and the Russian Revolution, and before the anarchists in the U.S.