Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or

leave the country.

-Theodore Teddy Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt who was the 26th President of The United States of America once
said.Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or
leave the country. I was shocked when I first read this quote because when a person leaves
one country or migrates to another country he should first focus on settling in that country,
finding a way to earn a living and find a house to live in but instead the 26th President of The
United States of America wanted the migrants to learn English within 5 years or else leave the
country. I feel Every human being has the right to speak any language he/she wants and
he/she can not be removed from a country on the basis of not being able to speak English or
any other language. The right to speak any language an individual wants is known as Linguistic
Rights. Linguistic Right is a human right. We all know that to live a comfortable life in The
United States of America we need to know how to speak and understand English but the
government can not threaten and force anyone to learn it. Linguistic rights were first included
as an international human right in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

Theodore Roosevelt

Migrants coming to US from a non English speaking country

A banner which goes against Linguistic Rights

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