Immigrants Quotes - Page 27

What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'

Don Feder

Hate, Dark, Government

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Jeb Bush is getting his presidential campaign in gear. Last week he said he supports a path to citizenship for immigrants. He said, 'I believe in an America where hard work and dedication can lead to any job that your brother and dad once had.'

Conan O'Brien

Brother, Jobs, Dad

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Hillary Clinton made a campaign stop in Las Vegas yesterday. She said she wants citizenship for undocumented immigrants. But after seeing Americans celebrate Cinco de Mayo yesterday, immigrants said, 'You know what, we're good. We're gonna head back now. We had enough.'

Jimmy Fallon

Yesterday, Vegas, Campaigns

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America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

Barack Obama

Mom, Jobs, Kids

"Obama to Immigration Activists: 'No Force On Earth Can Stop Us'" by Ian Schwartz, www.realclearpolitics.com. October 2, 2014.

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I don't know exactly why the notion of homeownership has such a grasp on the American imagination. Perhaps as descendants of landless immigrants we turn our plots into symbols of stability.

Ellen Goodman

Home, Imagination, Plot

Ellen Goodman (1986). “Close to Home”, Fawcett Books

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Like tens of millions of Americans, my parents were immigrants. They were poor and did not speak English well. They went to flea markets and sold gifts to make ends meet. Eventually, through hard work, they opened six gift stores in shopping malls. My parents achieved the American dream; they went from being poor to a home and gave my brother and me an amazing education. I wanted to serve the country that gave so much to my family.

Ted Lieu

Dream, Country, Brother

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Those flowers were picked by illegal immigrants. And they're not voting for you, b*tch.

Joy Behar

Stupid, Flower, Voting

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Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

Tania Bruguera

Taken, Opportunity, Political

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The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

Julius Streicher

Country, Europe, America

Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

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The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

Bobby Jindal

Country, Europe, Generations

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My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Arthur Rock

Mother, Father, Russia

silicongenesis.stanford.edu. November 12, 2002.

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Israel's capital will never again be a divided city, a city with a wall at its center, a city in which two flags fly. This city, will, in its entirety, absorb immigrants, welcome pilgrims and be the eternal capital of Israel forever.

Yitzhak Shamir

Wall, Israel, Cities

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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Samuel P. Huntington

Talking, People, Half

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Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

John Shadegg

Home, Ties, Keys

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My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

Mickey Kaus

Father, Thinking, Judging

Real Clear Politics Interview, www.realclearpolitics.com. March 12, 2010.

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Israel's economic and cultural progress is due to three things: the pioneering spirit that inspires the best of our immigrant and Israeli youth, who respond to the challenge of our desolute areas and the ingathering of the exiles; the feeling of Diaspora Jewry that they are partners in the enterprise of Israel's resurgence in the ancient homeland of the Jewish people; and the power of science, and technology which Israel unceasingly, and not without success, tries to enhance.

David Ben-Gurion

Technology, Israel, People

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For every child of an illegal immigrant who's a valedictorian, there's another 100 out there who weigh 130 pounds and they've got calves the size of cantaloupes because they're hauling 75 pounds of marijuana across the desert (http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/12/steve-king-still-stands-by-cantaloupe-comments/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0).

Michael C. Burgess

Kings, Children, Marijuana

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I'm an immigrant myself. I'd probably support it, but I can't do much.

Adrian Beltre

Support, I Can

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This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that’s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you’re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That’s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores.

Barack Obama

Country, Children, Lying

Barack Obama's Remarks on the Economy in Osawatomie, Kansas, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. December 6, 2011.

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Scapegoating will go on forever. We need someone to blame - illegal immigrants, single moms, people in prison. We need someone to victimize.

Winona Ryder

Mom, Hate, People

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America rejects bigotry. We reject every act of hatred against people of Arab background or Muslim faith America values and welcomes peaceful people of all faiths - Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu and many others. Every faith is practiced and protected here, because we are one country. Every immigrant can be fully and equally American because we're one country. Race and color should not divide us, because America is one country.

George W. Bush

Christian, Country, Inspiration

Address on Compassionate Conservatism, delivered 30 April 2002, San Jose, California

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The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before.

Barack Obama

Inspiring, Christian, Country

Address to the People of Berlin, delivered 24 July 2008, Victory Column

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Maybe next year the government might impose some immigration rules on the academy. Two Mexicans in a row is suspicious. [On Mexican immigrants in the US] I hope they can be treated with respect of the ones who came before and built this incredible immigrant nation.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Government, Years, Two

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My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action.
My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Arlen Specter

Father, War, Men

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To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Herbert Croly

Opportunity, America, Independence

Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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