Immigrants Quotes - Page 21

• When you're the son of an immigrant who came here seeking freedom, it makes you appreciate.

  Ted Cruz

  Son, Appreciate, Seeking

  Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. July 18, 2016.

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• When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is part of the blueprint for America, and that is the recipe for the religious diversity that we have today.

  Diana L. Eck

  Religious, Practice, America

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Smart, Moving, Struggle

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• America has been very open to immigrants in terms of laws, getting loans - it has been helping immigrants more than it's been helping African Americans in starting a small business. That's key, whether you're starting a restaurant or a laundromat.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Keys, Law, America

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• If I were an immigrant Latino not born in the US, I could not have written Searching for Whitopia: An Improbably Journey to the Heart of America book. And that is because many of the Whitopians would not have been comfortable talking about their views on immigration, talking about their views on taxes. And they wouldn't have spilled to me the new script on race and poverty as they did.

  Richard Benjamin

  Book, Heart, Journey

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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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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• Since Russia has the largest number of illegal immigrants, second only to the US, and immigrants from Central Asia bring in drugs, I'm calling for a visa requirement for all those wonderful people from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

  Alexei Navalny

  Russia, Uzbekistan, Numbers

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• For me, it was a mission on the hill to sensitize people, because they don't know Muslim immigrants. And for the most part, a lot of us just keep our heads down. But if I can engage someone in conversation, someone who maybe does support Donald Trump, or at least isn't speaking out against him, and I can show him the fear that I have, then maybe I can turn that tide.

  Andrew Aydin

  People, Support, Tides

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city's high level of craziness - something which every interesting city should offer. But sometimes immigrants can live in parallel worlds which can exclude others and not be very attractive.

  Charles Landry

  Beautiful, Cities, Interesting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Donald Trump is the grandson of German immigrants. Don't worry. The last time a German guy with crazy hair took over a country, everything turned out fine.

  Conan O'Brien

  Country, Crazy, Hair

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• The brown toxic cloud strangling Los Angeles never lifts and grows thicker with every immigrant added. One can't help appreciate the streets of Paris will soon become the streets of LA. However, Paris' streets erupted while LA's shall sink into a Third World quagmire much like Bombay or Calcutta, India. When you import that much crime, illiteracy, multiple languages and disease-Americans pick up stakes and move away.

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Moving, Paris, Clouds

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• When I started Cove, I spoke to three immigration lawyers who gave me a long checklist of things to do before my company could hire immigrants.

  Ruchi Sanghvi

  Long, Immigration, Three

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• By the same token, frozen dinners, a microwave oven, a dishwasher, and an illegal immigrant hired to clean the house and take one's cat to the vet would have seemed like the epitome of materialism in another time, but now provide the only means available for two-career couples to work hard enough at their jobs to earn the salaries they need to pay for those labor-saving amenities.

  Robert Wuthnow

  Jobs, Couple, Hard Work

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• I was a very sickly child. My parents were immigrants. They were not decorous. They were not discreet. They always thought I was gonna die.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Parent, Discreet

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Writing, Breathe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Country, Broken, Immigration

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

  Pope Francis

  Son, Guests, Built

  Pope Francis (2016). “The Allure of Goodness and Love: Pope Francis in the United States Complete Texts”, p.3, Liturgical Press

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• My father's death when I was eighteen and his struggles as a Jewish immigrant provided me with the raw material, but for a long time I went from painting to fiction and then finally to poetry before I could find the right way of telling this story.

  Philip Schultz

  Father, Struggle, Long

  Source: poems.com

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• I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Thinking, Entrepreneur, Culture

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.

  Anousheh Ansari

  Skills, Careers, Challenges

  Source: www.ncwit.org

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• I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.

  Edwidge Danticat

  Thinking, Artist, Culture

  The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2010.

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• America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.

  Wyclef Jean

  America, Missing, Culture

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 25, 2012.

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• The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Europe, Civilization

  "The End Of Liberalism?" by Sam Harris, samharris.org. September 19, 2006.

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• What motivated me? My mother. My mother was an immigrant woman, a peasant woman, struggled all her life, worked in the garment center.

  Al Lewis

  Mom, Mother, Motivated

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