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

—Chuck Palahniuk

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As she continues to answer questions about her employment, all these words mean little more to her now than I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY, I AM SOPHISTICATED, I AM WORTHY. She attempts the posture...

—Tania James

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Butterflies have always had wings; people have always had legs. While history is marked by the hybridity of human societies & the desire for movement, the reality of most of migration today reveals the unequal...

—Harsha Walia

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One who criticises capitalism while approving of immigration, of which the working class is its first victim, would do better to remain silent. One who criticises immigration while remaining silent regarding capitalism should do the...

—Alain de Benoist

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But he was no longer in Tollygunge. He had stepped out of it as he had stepped so many mornings out of his dreams, its reality and its particular logic rendered meaningless in the light...

—Jhumpa Lahiri

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

—Theodore Roosevelt

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Don’t rely on others to speak for you. It would be a miracle that anything got done in the world.

—Isabella Poretsis

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He wasn’t sure he liked everything that was happening, but a lot of it was “cultural,” apparently, and you couldn’t object to that, so he didn’t. “Cultural” sort of solved problems by explaining that they...

—Terry Pratchett

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Your life depends on a random stranger who could kill you, will probably disrespect you, and will most likely pay you much less than you deserve. But even those prospects are better than the ones...

—Gustavo Arellano

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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut — a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon...

—Anzia Yezierska

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Getting my legal situation fixed takes a bit longer than we all thought: twelve years to be exact. Not a big deal. Only most of my life.

—Patricio Maya

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In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone...

—Theodore Roosevelt

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…and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. 

—Colum McCann

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These days, it feels to me like you make a devil’s pact when you walk into this country. You hand over your passport at the check-in, you get stamped, you want to make a little...

—Zadie Smith

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Immigration, as it exists today, is a broken system. It traps anyone who’s in the system.

—Armando Villareal

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Lady and gentleman, when my parents left Korea with nothing but the clothes on their backs and the considerable wealth they had amassed in the shipping business, they had a dream. They had a dream...

—John Green

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And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see...

—Amy Tan

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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

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It will be an interesting way to have a discussion about immigration.

—Sandy Swanson

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Är det egentligen något fel i att vilja ha folk som gör rätt för sig som invandrare?Kanske inte, men var i så fall vaksam på vilken människosyn vi anammar när människor för att komma över...

—David Qviström

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This has been the century of strangers, brown, yellow and white. This has been the century of the great immigrant experiment. It is only this late in the day that you can walk into a...

—Zadie Smith

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Dat’s what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: ‘America, the land of milk and honey.’ Bot they never tell you the milk’s gone sour and the honey’s stolen.

—Andre Dubus III

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Sverige har inte haft krig på egen mark sedan sextonhundratalet och hur ofta tänkte jag inte den tanken att någon borde invadera Sverige, bomba husen, plundra hela landet, skjuta männen, våldta kvinnorna, och sedan låta...

—Karl Ove

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Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia...

—Carlos Fuentes

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Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World’s Club...

—Mohsin Hamid

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No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.

—Warsan Shire

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The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

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The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it–while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation–takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

—Norman Manea

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

—Carlos Fuentes

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America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.

—Michael Gold

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

—Ronald Reagan

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it was Greenspan who through some excessive deregulation prepared the monetary ground for the rise of the subprime mortgage companies: a lending market that specialises in high-risk mortgages and loans.’Innovation’, said Greenspan in April 2005,...

—Gilad Atzmon

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AMNESTY, n. The state’s magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.

—Ambrose Bierce

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As we all came to discover the limitations of assimilation, we grew closer as a family

—Miguel Syjuco

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What, indeed, is a New Yorker? Is he Jew or Irish? Is he English or German? Is he Russian or Polish? He may be something of all these, and yet he is wholly none of...

—Charles Whibley

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Not again, Draper,” Frank sighed. “You’re not going to stop us from crossing. You and I know that the one thing the Government does even more poorly than provide healthcare is secure its borders.

—Randy Quarles

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People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the fucking thing. It’s all fucking crap. We’re all human beings, we’re all mammals, we’re all rocks, plants, rivers. Fucking borders are just such a...

—Shane MacGowan

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Foreign behavior? What the fuck are you talking about? Foreign behavior? Have you read Things Fall Apart? Ifemulu asked, wishing she had not told Ranyinudo about Dike. She was angrier with Ranyinudo than she had...

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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I’ll tell you what I don’t believe, Alwyn. I don’t believe there’s a pretty forest in the sky with castles and a white light and God and all his angels waiting to welcome all the...

—Beverly Rycroft

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Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with...

—Laura Esquivel

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Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: ‘Nothing human is alien to me.’ The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens...

—Christopher Hitchens

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Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87

—Mona Rodriguez

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Whenever people talk in the abstract about the pros and cons of immigration, one should not forget that immigrants are individual human beings whose lives happen not to fit neatly within national borders – and...

—Philippe Legrain

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Alexa and the other guests, and perhaps even Georgina, all understood the fleeing from war, from the kind of poverty that crushed human souls, but they would not understand the need to escape from the...

—Chimamanda Ngozi

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{…]I began to feel tears of frustration build up in my eyes, yearning to free themselves from their glandular prisons.

—Andrea Bouchaud

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…the Statue of Liberty’s got this invitation: ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your reeking homeless–”Huddled masses,’ said Ira. ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’…Okay, fine. So like...

—Neal Shusterman

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God’s love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

—Dillon Burroughs

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Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

—Mona Rodriguez

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fruited plains,” whatever the hell that means. I mean, America isn’t a place, it’s an ideal. It could happen in the Sahara Desert and still be America. For that matter, I’m the child of immigrants....

—Phillip Andrew

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foreigners” from across state borders, and the decision whom to exclude or include, and under what conditions, rests not with a multitude of independent private property owners or neighborhoods of owners but with a single...

—Hans-Hermann Hoppe

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