Immigrants Quotes - Page 22

• People came as immigrants from all over the world, and Hindu and Muslim and Buddhist and Sikh communities became part of the landscape of the U.S.

  Diana L. Eck

  Buddhist, People, Community

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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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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• People get tired of talking about American exceptionalism, but I think this is an extraordinary thing about the United States, that we are a nation of immigrants, first of all, that is built upon a pluralistic society of native people that were here to begin with. The issue of diversity is really with us from the beginning.

  Diana L. Eck

  Tired, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The estimated 11 or so million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. This is what Mr. [Donald ] Trump promised back in November.

  Jake Tapper

  United States, November, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• [Donald] Trump has been saying that on, day one, the violent undocumented immigrants will be - will leave the country. But what about the rest? What happens to the other 11 or so million, however many there are?

  Jake Tapper

  Country, Violent, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I get that that the violent illegal immigrants will be removed from the country. But what I am not hearing and I am wondering, for people out there - and, look, it’s not just the liberal media, right? It’s also conservatives. It’s Rush Limbaugh. It’s Governor Sarah Palin. It’s other people who want Donald Trump to win who are saying, wow, it sounds like he is really backing away from this deportation force…

  Jake Tapper

  Country, Winning, Media

  "Trump team dodges and ducks". www.washingtonpost.com. August 29, 2016.

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• [Immigrants ] are going back where they came. If they came from a certain country, they are going to be brought back to their country. That's the way it's supposed to be.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Way, Certain

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• In language at once stark and delicate, Suki Kim shatters the polemic of North and South Korea. She couples an investigative reporter's fierce desire to strip away the fiction of the Hermit Kingdom with an immigrant's insatiable hunger for an emotional home, no matter how troubled and no matter how impossible.

  Monique Truong

  Couple, Home, Emotional

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• [Illegal immigrants] they`re bringing drugs. They`re bringing crime. They`re rapists.Somebody is doing the raping. Somebody is doing it. There`s women being raped. Well, who is doing the raping? Who is doing the raping?

  Donald Trump

  Drug, Crime, Illegal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump`s plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to do about those 11 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Speech, Immigration, Details

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• And they [illegal immigrants] will come back, but they are going to have to go out, and hopefully they get back.

  Donald Trump

  Illegal, Hopefully, Get Back

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Mom, Mean, Minorities

  "Matt Lauer Presses Chelsea Clinton On What Her Father Would Be Called if Hillary Elected". Interview with Matt Lauer, www.realclearpolitics.com. July 28, 2016.

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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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