Immigrants Quotes - Page 34

• All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.

  Margaret Mead

  War, Age, Different

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• I'm a full-blooded Mexican. My mother was born in Zacatecas, Mexico, and my father - the son of Mexican immigrants - was born near Fresno, California.

  Michael Trevino

  Mother, Father, Son

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.

  Jim Goldberg

  Needs, Complexity, Ambivalence

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• The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties and statutes or of strict administrative regulations secured by diplomatic negotiations. I sincerely hope that we may continue to minimize the evils likely to arise from such immigration without unnecessary friction and by mutual concessions between self-respecting governments.

  William Howard Taft

  Government, Self, Evil

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• If our language and culture are not passed on to immigrants, where will they learn to value integrity in government and the rule of law?

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Integrity, Government, Law

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• (Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

  Stefan Zweig

  Christian, Jobs, Freedom

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• They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

  Jeb Bush

  Commitment, Law, Broke

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Hands, Law

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• We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Long, Criminals

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• Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

  Hazel Rochman

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.

  Arundhati Roy

  Independent, Simple, Proliferation Treaty

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• Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Supposing That, White, Office

  "State Of Disunion: A 'Radical' Solution" by Christopher Monckton, www.wnd.com. January 28, 2014.

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• I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!

  Kerry Washington

  College, Islands, Volunteer

  "2012 Democratic Convention: Stars Take Center Stage on Final Day" by Tina Daunt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 6, 2912.

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• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  Mara Liasson

  Children, Support, Decision

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• Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Children, Pain, Home

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• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

  Himanshu Suri

  Thinking, Community, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

  Akhil

  Confused, Feelings, Wells

  "This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2014.

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• Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers.

  George Packer

  Country, Government, Class

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• I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.

  Anne Waldman

  Country, Real, Land

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

  Jack Kirby

  Parent, Source, Factories

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.

  S. I. Hayakawa

  Land, Native Language, Ideas

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• Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Daughter, Running, Father

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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• One of the reasons we require immigrants to learn English before they naturalize is that a person who cannot understand English will not be able to participate in the political community in any but the most limited capacity.

  Jim Sensenbrenner

  Community, Political, Able

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