Oscar Handlin Quotes

• Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

  Oscar Handlin

  Writing, Discovery, Usa

  Oscar Handlin (2002). “The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People”, p.3, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.

  Oscar Handlin

  Expectations, Immigration, Shrinking

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