Immigrants Quotes - Page 30

• If I had the opportunity to speak to a young immigrant girl that just arrived to the U.S. the advice I would have for her would be: ask, speak, search; because there are opportunities out there. And, know that you aren't the only immigrant or the last to come to this country. Many that have come before you have succeeded. It is possible.

  Jenni Rivera

  Girl, Country, Opportunity

  "Jenni Rivera is mourned, but still inspires" by Cindy Y. Rodriguez, www.cnn.com. December 11, 2012.

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• My folks came to U.S. as immigrants, aliens, and became citizens. I was born in Boston, a citizen, went to Hollywood and became an alien.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Boston, Hollywood

  "R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. February 27, 2015.

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• Give the FBI unchecked domestic spying powers and instead of focusing on preventing terrorism, it will revert to doing what it does best - monitoring, harassing, and intimidating political dissidents and thousands of harmless immigrants.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Giving, Political, Doe

  "Ashcroft's Lies". prospect.org. June 27, 2002.

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• It's a universal story, it's an immigrant story, and it's a love story. In the United States, if you believe in yourself and you're determined and persevere, you're going to succeed.

  Gloria Estefan

  Believe, United States, Stories

  "Gloria and Emilio Estefan Have Rhythm — and Lots of Romance". Interview with Alanna Nash, www.aarp.org. August, 2013.

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• Oh, all you immigrants and visionaries, what do you hope to find here, who do you hope to become?

  Michael Cunningham

  Visionaries

  Michael Cunningham (2010). “By Nightfall: A Novel”, p.70, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.

  Grover Norquist

  Country, Successful, Voice

  "GROVER NORQUIST: Immigration Reform Is A No-Brainer For The Economy". www.businessinsider.com. April 25, 2013.

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• I do not support driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.

  Brian Sandoval

  Support, Undocumented Immigrants, Drivers

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• There is a mass of immigrants, a million of them without work. We will stop this invasion.

  Antonis Samaras

  Invasion, Mass, Millions

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• The United States is historically a nation of immigrants.

  Charles Rangel

  United States, Nations, States

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• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

  Jacques Pepin

  Religious, Jobs, Paris

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• I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.

  Dennis Lehane

  Father, Struggle, Class

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• Every immigrant family, it seems, has someone who does not belong in the new country they have come to. It feels like permanent exile to that one brother or wife who cannot stand a silent fate in Boston or London or Melbourne. I’ve met many who remain haunted by the persistent ghost of an earlier place.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Country, Brother, Fate

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• We immigrants can sometimes sound a little hysterical about this because we come from places that have tried this and we know where it leads. Anybody who's lived in countries with socialized health care knows that it becomes the dominant political issue.

  Mark Steyn

  Country, Issues, Political

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• All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or less readily assimilated.

  Boies Penrose

  May, Tests, Economic

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• As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.

  Jennifer Gilmore

  War, Writing, Needs

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• The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement.

  Chris Cannon

  People, Immigration, Enforcement

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• Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.

  Ronald Reagan

  Numbers, Immigration, United States

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.677, Best Books on

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• I'm not anti-Muslim, I'm not anti-immigration; I'm saying we've got big problems in our cities. It's not very smart to make the problem bigger by letting in millions more immigrants from rural Muslim cultures that don't assimilate.

  Pim Fortuyn

  Smart, Cities, Immigration

  "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.

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• If we had those 40 million children that were [aborted] over the last 30 years, we wouldn't need the illegal immigrants to fill the jobs that they are doing today.

  Tom DeLay

  Jobs, Children, Years

  Tom DeLay's speech at the College Republican National Convention in Washington, DC, www.youtube.com. 2007.

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• For the bookish, London is a book. For criminals, a map of opportunities. For unpapered immigrants, it is a nest of skinned eyes; sanctioned gunmen ready to blow your head off as you run for a train. When the city of distorting mirrors revealed itself, through its districts and discriminations, I discovered more about London's past as a reworking of my own submerged history.

  Iain Sinclair

  Running, Book, Eye

  Iain Sinclair (2007). “London: City of Disappearances”, Penguin Global

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Father, School, Kids

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

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• During the years when the barely educated immigrants were being replaced by barely educated native sons, Hollywood . . . proved a more reliable, cost-effective means of securing world domination than any nuclear arsenal or diplomatic démarche.

  Frederic Raphael

  Mean, Son, Years

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• John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' also speaks urgently to today's concerns: the cratered trail of dreams for Mexican immigrants seeking a promised land in the Western [United States]; the perfidy of banks in foreclosing on poor people's homes; and the insurgent urge of the book's protagonist, Tom Joad, to speak truth to police power. 'Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy,' Tom promises, 'I'll be there.' In Salinas, Calif., Ferguson, Mo., or Staten Island, N.Y., Tom's truth goes marching on.

  Richard Corliss

  Dream, Book, Home

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