Immigrants Quotes - Page 33

• Immigrants have faced huge obstacles to achieving the American Dream, yet have persevered to overcome them.

  Charles Rangel

  Dream, Overcoming, Obstacles

  "Why I Went to Jail" by Rep. Charles Rangel, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2013.

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• As the daughter of immigrants, growing up in New York City, you are either at the table or on the menu.

  Grace Meng

  Daughter, New York, Growing Up

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• Ronald Reagan basically legalized every illegal immigrant in this country. I just like to bring this up because every week I like to make Republican heads explode about how they love Ronald Reagan, but would despise everything he did.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Republican, Week

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• To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for - that he was in favor of amnesty.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Favors, Amnesty, Should

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

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• Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.

  Irwin Redlener

  Children, Fragility, Levels

  "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.

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• One finds fortunes built on slave labor, indentured labor, prison labor, immigrant labor, female labor, child labor, and scab labor - backed by the lethal force of gun thugs and militia. 'Old money' is often little more than dirty money laundered by several generations of possession.

  Michael Parenti

  Children, Dirty, Thug

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• Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.

  Eboo Patel

  America, Joy, Important

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• All we can do is politely ask aliens from suspect nations to leave ... while we sort the peace-loving immigrants from the murderous fanatics.... Muslim immigrants who agree to spy on the millions of Muslim citizens unaffected by the deportation order can stay.

  Ann Coulter

  Order, Scary, Spy

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• If you got up this morning and had fruits for breakfast, it was probably picked by the bent back of an immigrant worker. If you slept in a hotel or motel of the nation, you probably had your room done by an immigrant worker.

  Bob Menendez

  Morning, Done, Breakfast

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• In Holland I have seen well-meaning, principled people blinded by multiculturalism, overwhelmed by the imperative to be sensitive and respectful of immigrant culture, while ignoring criminal abuse of women and girls.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Girl, People, Abuse

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• There are many Sheriff Arpaios. People who have taken to local city, county, and state governments across the county the idea that immigrants are the problem. That immigrants are to blame.

  Zack de la Rocha

  Taken, Government, Cities

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The conflict between the creatures of Native Lore and the immigration of the European preternatural hosts is hinted at in 'Blood Bound' and reflects the conflicts between the human immigrants and the Indian people who were already here.

  Patricia Briggs

  Blood, People, Immigration

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• Who are beneficiaries of the Court's protection? Members of various minorities including criminals, atheists, homosexuals, flag burners, illegal immigrants (including terrorists), convicts, and pornographers.

  Pat Buchanan

  Atheist, Religion, Criminals

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• Illegal immigrants are already a very big problem for us. We are already taking big steps to disallow illegal immigrants from coming in.

  Antonis Samaras

  Steps, Problem, Bigs

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

  Ted Cruz

  Opportunity, Dna, Liberty

  "Meet The Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. July 5, 2015.

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• Christianity is seen by more and more people as a negative message: anti gay, anti immigrant, anti abortion (as the only life issue), anti gay marriage, anti the Democratic party.

  Richard Rohr

  Party, Gay, Issues

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Destiny, Yes We Can

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Race, Pigs, Scare

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.

  Pete Seeger

  Teacher, Father, Doctors

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• I have a very hyper-sensitive sister, and when she saw in the papers the next day that I had proclaimed myself the daughter of an immigrant, she didn't like it at all, and was with difficulty deterred from writing to the press that my father might be an immigrant, but not hers.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Daughter, Father, Writing

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• Growing up in the suburbs of Chicago, the color of my skin and my rather peculiar background as an Ethiopian immigrant delineated the border of my life and friendships. I learned quickly how to stand alone.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Growing Up, Color, Skins

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• Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Taken, Writing, America

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• Immigrants bring to America the values of faith in God, love of family, hard work and self reliance - the values that made us a great nation to begin with. We've all seen those values in action, through the service and sacrifice of more than 35,000 foreign-born men and women currently on active duty in the United States military.

  George W. Bush

  Military, Hard Work, Humor

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• The Americans had not played a very prominent part in the war of 1914-1918, he (Adolf Hitler) thought, and moreover, had not made any great sacrifices of blood. They would certainly not withstand a trial by fire, for their fighting qualities were low. In general no such thing as an American people existed as a unit; they were nothing but a mass of immigrants from many nations and many races.

  Albert Speer

  War, Fighting, Sacrifice

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• Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

  Tacitus

  Barbarians, Firsts, England

  Cornelius Tacitus, Harold Mattingly (1965). “Tacitus on Britain and Germany: a translation of the Agricola and the Germania”

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