Immigrants Quotes - Page 3

• Whatever country you go to, you need to definitely follow the rules. So I believe it's very important for people, wherever they go, any immigrant should know or should try to learn something about the culture.

  David Ortiz

  Country, Believe, People

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• Illegal immigrants are using our resources, taking our jobs, filling our schools, our hospitals and our prisons, and we are paying for it all.

  Dan Benishek

  Jobs, School, Prison

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• I'm an immigrant myself. It was a tough road to come to America and work.

  Pamela Anderson

  America, Tough

  "EXCLUSIVE: Pamela Anderson Says Immigrants Need to Respect the Legal Citizenship Process" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants.

  Stephen Ambrose

  War, Winning, Immigration

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• Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America.

  Jan Schakowsky

  Opportunity, America, Community

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• All art comes from other art, and all immigrants come from other places.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art

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• Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

  Jeb Bush

  Groups, Generations, Language

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• ...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more Indian than the English. There are still young white men who are angry about that; who will roll out at closing time into the poorly lit streets with a kitchen knife wrapped in a tight fist. But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts, compared to what the immigrant fears - dissolution, disappearance.

  Zadie Smith

  Men, White Man, Knives

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.272, Vintage

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• If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Military, Opportunity

  Bill Clinton's speech to the Democratic National Convention, www.washingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• My father was the son of immigrants, and he grew up bilingual, but English is what my father taught me and what he spoke to me. America's strength is not our diversity; it is our ability to unite around common principles even when we come from different backgrounds.

  Ernest Istook

  Father, Son, America

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• The culture is going into a psychological depression. We are concerned about our place in the world, about being competitive: Will my children have as much as I have? Will I ever own my own home? How can I pay for a new car? Are immigrants taking away my white world?

  James Hillman

  Children, Home, White

  "On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman". Interview With Scott London, www.scottlondon.com.

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• Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

  Luis Gutierrez

  Ignorance, People, Different

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• Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

  Henry Louis Gates

  College, Generations, Educated

  "35 Million Ways to Be Black". Interview with Adam Hochschild, www.motherjones.com. March 14, 2007.

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• Printing ballots in multiple languages costs millions of dollars every year. It also discourages immigrants from integrating into American society and gaining the benefits that come from speaking English.

  Ernest Istook

  Years, Dollars, Cost

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• I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.

  Eddie Izzard

  Jobs, Citizens, Knows

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism with assertive, pragmatic North American English - the Protestant plain style in both the U.S. and Canada, with its no-nonsense Scottish immigrants.

  Camille Paglia

  Intellectual, Style, Encounters

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• We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white.

  Rand Paul

  Black And White, Rights, Liberty

  "Sen. Rand Paul's Speech at Howard University". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 10, 2013.

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• If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.

  Christine Pelosi

  Believe, Fighting, Equality For All

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• I don't want to scream 'Immigrant Song' every night for the rest of my life, and I'm not sure I could.

  Robert Plant

  Song, Night, Want

  "Robert Plant: the showman must go on". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2011.

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• Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Europe, Survival

  "Europe hands its soul to the right" by Tariq Ramadan, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh... and everybody's high!

  Stephen Colbert

  Running, Army, Brave New World

  "2000 Presidential Election: Bush vs. Gore" by Ryan Bort, www.esquire.com. November 5, 2014.

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• Because immigrants have always been particularly prone to repetition - it's something to do with that experience of moving from West to East or East to West or from island to island. Even when you arrive, you're still going back and forth; your children are going round and round. There's no proper term for it - original sin seems too harsh; maybe original trauma would be better.

  Zadie Smith

  Children, Moving, Islands

  Zadie Smith (2000). “White teeth”

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• I used to have a sort of soft spot for Huckabee. He seemed to have a genuinely saintly streak, which caused him to defend illegal immigrants and give pardons to criminals who were perhaps a little less rehabilitated than he had imagined.

  Gail Collins

  Giving, Criminals, Littles

  "And the G.O.P. Candidates Are…". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. May 10, 2011.

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• For the undocumented immigrants, the big priority is just to get out from the shadows, be able to get a driver's license, buy an airplane ticket and stop worrying about sudden deportation. But for the country as a whole, it's crucial that everybody have a citizen's stake in the nation's welfare.

  Gail Collins

  Country, Airplane, Worry

  "Is This a Government Which I See Before Me?". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. June 5, 2013.

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• Australians are coffee snobs. An influx of Italian immigrants after World War II ensured that - we probably had the word 'cappuccino' about 20 years before America. Cafe culture is really big for Aussies. We like to work hard, but we take our leisure time seriously.

  Hugh Jackman

  War, Coffee, Hard Work

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