A reader submitted this comment to my post on Congress and Amnesty. I thought her comment important enough to post it here...thanks Roxanne, I think this says it all!
Here is a speech that President Roosevelt made on Jan. 03,1919, What are the chances of our next presidential hopeful getting elected using this speech...
Theodore Roosevelt 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 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 January 03, 1919
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All I can say is AMEN to Theodore Roosevelt's speech. I just wish our government officials were reminded of his words, and LIVED by them.
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