in 1907, we had some good ideas.

my grandmother sent me this in an email...

aside from the fact that my grandmother is now emailing like crazy (itself a weird thing), i think it's just another 'sign of the times' that even earlier generations are getting into politics in a big way. I know that over the course of their lifetimes things have changed greatly, and it has to be unsettling at times to see how far we've come (or fallen as the case may be). What's reassuring though is that they still feel like the best way to make a change is to get out and do something - share their values, make their voices heard and trust that there is still hope for America's future.

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