Immigrants Quotes
Immigrants Quote of the day
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
We focus so much on how immigrants can change America that we forget that America has always changed immigrants even more.
He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.
People who are driven by love will overcome hardships and hurdles in ways that people who are only driven by profit never can.
I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.
Here, where we had done the most of our growing up, the old family home had been a fortress against the world. This is something that the children of immigrants all know.
I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.
Remember that when you say ‘I will have none of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange, ’ you have denied America with that word.
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.
The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.
Most New Yorkers spent their lives somewhere between the fruit cart and the fifth floor. To see the city from a few hundred feet above the riffraff was pretty celestial. We gave the moment its due.
Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!
People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil.
An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court formed the kind of atmosphere you might find in Jupiter's red spot
Mr. Speaker, our Nation depends on immigrants' labor, and I hope we can create an immigration system as dependable as they are.
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
We are a country where people of all backgrounds, all nations of origin, all languages, all religions, all races, can make a home. America was built by immigrants.
It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.
For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.
Stability and security are just illusions. But they are necessary illusions because without them there would be no way of going on.
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs
How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.
As it was, being a Zimbabwean immigrant was the worst thing a person could be in Southern Africa. They were the new Hebrews – homeless.
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.
Her occupation was the worst that anyone could think of. No guest in the park had to think of it because, unlike the wandering dwarf women, her job had no bearing on paper.
