Emigrating Quotes

• I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Thinking, America

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Freedom, Taken

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• Until I got married, when I used to go out, my mother said good bye to me as though I was emigrating.

  Thora Hird

  Mother, Bye, Emigration

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• As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal. We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Men, Despotism

  Letter to Joshua F. Speed, 24 Aug. 1855

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• Most students have thoughts about emigrating to Israel. A significant number go on aliyah. We are proud of our Israel programs, which come at a considerable cost to the university.

  Norman Lamm

  Israel, Numbers, Cost

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• We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

  Barbara Jordan

  Party, Made, Backgrounds

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• If you don't think that your country should come before yourself, you can better serve your country by livin' someplace else.

  Stompin' Tom Connors

  Country, Thinking, Canada

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the most part of travelers like myself. There were maybe a dozen of us - one third of the island's population. Our tribe could only increase as the Mykines tribe dwindled away, a few falling down steps, most simply emigrating, until there would be, sad to say, only our peripatetic selves. We were the future of all places condemned by remoteness to a lingering, photogenic death.

  Lawrence Millman

  Fall, Islands, Self

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• Africans who immigrate to America know how little racism exists there. They suspect it before emigrating from Africa, and they know it after arriving in America. Indeed, America, the Left's depiction of it notwithstanding, is the least racist country in the world.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, America, Racism

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