Ruben Martinez Quotes

• Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.

  Ruben Martinez

  Biblical, Immigration, Desert

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The wheel [migration] has been spinning and spinning and spinning. Wouldn't it be nice to imagine a world where that circle stops spinning in that crazy way? Because that's a huge wheel that's crushing people's lives, real people's lives, families.

  Ruben Martinez

  Crush, Crazy, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

  Ruben Martinez

  Simple, Soul, Age

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

  Ruben Martinez

  Ethical Issues, Political, Receiving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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