Migration Quotes - Page 2

• Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fabric, Migrants, American Life

  President John F. Kennedy (2016). “A Nation Of Immigrants”, p.11, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Political, Investing

  "Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip". www.reuters.com. March 21, 2007.

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• Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered

  Franz Boas

  People, Study, Influence

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• What, after all, is the narrative of the American Dream? It was a discourse formulated between the 1880s and the 1920s in the United States during the great waves of migration and expansion and reforms of the Progressive Era.

  Naomi Wolf

  Dream, Expansion, United States

  "How the Mitt Romney video killed the American Dream" by Naomi Wolf, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

  Tony Abbott

  Thinking, Doors, Australia

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30' with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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• If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

  Michael Franti

  Refugee Crisis, Land, Water

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• There are certain things that we take for granted that simply would not have existed without the great migration. Motown, for example, would not have existed - it simply would not, because Berry Gordy, the founder of it, his parents had migrated from Georgia to Detroit where he founded Motown, and where did he get his talent?

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Parent, Example, Berries

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. October 6, 2010.

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• There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Lemmings, Matter

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Facebook's successor will no doubt provide an easy "migration utility" through which you can bring all your so-called friends with you, if you even want to.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Doubt, Want, Easy

  "Facebook hype will fade" by Douglas Rushkoff, www.cnn.com. January 7, 2011.

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• So if Arizona sees the federal government isn't assuming its responsibilities, it creates local laws. But migration and keeping security on the borders is not a local or state issue, it's a federal issue.

  Vicente Fox

  Responsibility, Government, Law

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• Well, I'm a daughter of the great migration as, really, the majority of African Americans that you meet in the north and west are products of the great migration. It's that massive. Many of us owe our very existence to the fact that people migrated.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Daughter, Mother, People

  "Journalist Isabel Wilkerson". "Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. December 23, 2010.

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• I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who was from Southern Virginia. They migrated to Washington and I wouldn't even exist if it were not for that migration. And I brought her back to Georgia, both my parents, actually.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Mother, Father, Mean

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.

  Aviva Chomsky

  Real, Goal, Way

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• People come here penniless but not cultureless. They bring us gifts. We can synthesize the best of our traditions with the best of theirs. We can teach and learn from each other to produce a better America.

  Mary Pipher

  America, People, Immigration

  Mary Pipher (2003). “The Middle of Everywhere”, p.371, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.

  Vayalar Ravi

  Government, Individual Choice, Decision

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• Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe going all over the place, and they have to integrate into a society, that society that exists has to integrate with them. Both sides have to work at it. It's not a one-way thing.

  Roma Tearne

  People, Twenties, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.

  Paul Bettany

  Moving, Refugee Crisis, Humanity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Once I thought to write a history of the immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history.

  Oscar Handlin

  Writing, Discovery, Usa

  Oscar Handlin (2002). “The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People”, p.3, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.

  Salman Rushdie

  Stories, Done, Planets

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• Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Numbers, People, House

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.

  Claudio Magris

  States, Danube, Difficult

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• We now know that climate change is a driver of migration, and is expected to increase the displacement of populations.

  Mary Robinson

  Change, Climate, Population

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• The act of migration puts into crisis everything about the migrating individual or group, everything about identity and selfhood and culture and belief. So if this is a novel about migration it must be that act of putting in question. It must perform the crisis it describes.

  Salman Rushdie

  Identity, Groups, Culture

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• From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.

  Harry Seidler

  America, Abundance, Building

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• What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Color, Knowing, People

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