Migration Quotes

• Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family

  Ban Ki-moon

  Expression, Safety, Fabric

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• We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.

  William L. Swing

  Inspiring, Home, People

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Patriotic, Usa

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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• History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, History

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.

  Antonio Guterres

  People, Choices, Humanity

  "U.N. Refugee Chief: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis Is 'Lagging Far Behind'". time.com. April 23, 2015.

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• All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Childhood, Stories, Refugee

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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  I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.

  George Washington

  Land, America, Atheism

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.5, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

  Paul Collier

  Has Beens

  Paul Collier (2013). “Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Migrants, Immigration

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Land, Immigration, Culture

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1039, Best Books on

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• I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

  Mohsin Hamid

  War, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Ducks

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Borders, Nations, Nationalism

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• Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.

  Margaret Hodge

  Party, Political, Immigration

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• I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Travel, Race, Wonder

  Ivy Compton-Burnett (1972). “Parents and children”

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• Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Diversity, Like You

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• We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Men, Bird, Troops

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore, send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

  Emma Lazarus

  Inspirational, Freedom, Tired

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Emma Lazarus

  Tired, Civilization, Urbanization

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Patriotic, Years

  Theodore Roosevelt (1921). “Roosevelt in the Kansas City Star: War-time Editorials”

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• Spirit can go anywhere. In fact, it has to go places so it can change and emerge like in the migrations. That's the whole idea.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Ideas, Facts, Spirit

  Edgar I. Ailor, William Least Heat-Moon (2012). “BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited”, p.120, University of Missouri Press

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• As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The migration itself, like the pilgrimage, is the hard journey: a 'leveller' on which the 'fit' survive and stragglers fall by the wayside. The journey thus pre-empts the need for hierarchies and shows of dominance. The 'dictators' of the animal kingdom are those who live in an ambience of plenty. The anarchists, as always, are the 'gentlemen of the road'.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Fall, Animal, Journey

  Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.271, Random House

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• I believe that for his escape he took advantage of the migration of a flock of wild birds.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Believe, Bird, Advantage

  Antoine De Saint-Exupery (2015). “The Little Prince: "Illustrated Edition"”, p.44, eKitap Projesi

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• Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.

  J. G. Ballard

  Reality, Stuff, Helping

  Heavy Metal Interview, April 1982.

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• Migration gives a blank cheque to put anything you don't feel like addressing in the memory hold. No neighbours can go against the monster narrative of your family.

  Junot Diaz

  Memories, Giving, Monsters

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