Immigrants Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the border instead of exporting them to the U.S.

  Timothy Murphy

  Government, Mexican, Drug

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• Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

  Evgeni Kostitsyn

  America, Firsts, Columbus

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• Well, when you're an immigrant writer, or an immigrant, you're not always welcome to this country unless you're the right immigrant. If you have a Mexican accent, people look at you like, you know, where do you come from and why don't you go back to where you came from? So, even though I was born in the United States, I never felt at home in the United States. I never felt at home until I moved to the Southwest, where, you know, there's a mix of my culture with the U.S. culture, and that was why I lived in Texas for 25 years.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Country, Home, Texas

  "Sandra Cisneros looks back as a writer in search of home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

  Phil Gramm

  America, Important, Would Be

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• It's an ironic thing about being an immigrant kid, growing up - 'cause I grew up in the UK and went to a British boarding school and we would go to chapel every Sunday morning. And we'd actually have religious studies and religious studies means Christian studies where you study the Bible.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Christian, Religious, Morning

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• People always break the law, but for the most part the rule of law triumphed and illegal immigrants were found and deported. The case was not made for them to stay.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Law, People, Break

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient French colony come and do that is a little critical of our education system back home. Balzac is definitely over their heads. It's meant to be funny also because it would be also probably too much for kids in France, but kids in France would know who Balzac is. But, back home at that age, I guarantee you they don't know who he is.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Kids, Home, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• Again, something that's very strange and odd, you will find sometimes that immigrants that have been here for many years and already have their citizenship might be the ones against additional immigration. We've seen that also.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Years, Immigration, Might

  Source: collider.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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• I think you have to take the man at his word [Donald Trump]. Is kind of an equal-opportunity insulter. He started by calling Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. He moved on to denigrating John McCain's heroism during the Vietnam War. He has gone after people with disabilities. He has said Muslims should be kept out of our country. He certainly has gone after individual women in the media, in the political arena.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, War, Opportunity

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I'm not concerned about what [Donald Trump] says about me. That doesn't matter to me. I'm going to stand up for immigrants. I'm going to stand up for American Muslims who are working hard in this country that they love and consider their own. I'm going to stand up for other women. I'm going to stand up for the right to choose.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Matter, Trump

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.

  Barack Obama

  Gay, Worst, Recognizing

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• All the studies say that immigrants are less likely to be criminals in the United States. That's what they say. The sources are there.

  Joe Arpaio

  Criminals, United States, Study

  "Al Punto" with Jorge Ramos, www.univision.com. January 28, 2016.

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• My father was a Muslim immigrant; when Donald Trump started talking about banning Muslim immigrants from this country, I grew my beard out. My mother hated it. She never wanted me to look particularly "Muslim." She thought if I grew my beard out that people would know, right? "Don't make it hard for yourself. Don't let people know."

  Andrew Aydin

  Mother, Country, Father

  Source: www.mtv.com

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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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• 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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