Immigrants Quotes - Page 34

• Ed Koch once said that New York City is where immigrants come to audition for America. That's what happened to my parents; that's what happened to me.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  New York, Cities, America

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

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• When a law enforcement officer apprehends an illegal immigrant, it makes no sense to simply release that individual who has been breaking our laws with no threat of sanction or penalty.

  Bobby Jindal

  Law, Enforcement, Individual

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• As I wrote Working toward Whiteness, I came to see one historic task on the New Deal - and one in which it succeeded - as the fostering of fuller U.S. citizenship among immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and their kids. But this very achievement separated poorer and often despised immigrant workers from Europe and workers of color in unprecedented ways.

  David Roediger

  Kids, Color, Europe

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In some ways Jews and the various largely Catholic and often poor European immigrant groups were "white," as the historian Tom Guglielmo has recently put it, "on arrival." Where naturalization law was concerned, for example, ample precedents recognized their ability to become citizens, a right explicitly resting on their "whiteness." But they also remained, as Working toward Whiteness puts it, "on trial" for a harrowingly long time.

  David Roediger

  Law, White, Long

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

  Noam Chomsky

  People, United States, Illegal

  "Noam Chomsky: Drug Cartels and the Growing Border War". Interview with Luis Fernando Cárdenas, www.guernicamag.com. ugust 15, 2011.

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• Donald Trump's going to start a war, he's going to start attacking immigrants or Muslims or Black Lives Matter or whatever. Because he's going to have to distract them from the no jobs.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, War, Black

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• Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.

  Mara Liasson

  Children, Support, Decision

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• Many immigrants do not talk about what they endured back home. They were fleeing that world, and when they left they didn't want to talk about it because there had been pain and heartbreak under the caste system of the South. They didn't want to burden their children with what they had endured.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Children, Pain, Home

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• Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues while discrediting reformers.

  George Packer

  Country, Government, Class

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• Even American women are not felt to be persons in the same sense as the male immigrants among the Hungarians, Poles, Russian Jews,--not to speak of Italians, Germans, and the masters of all of us--the Irish!

  Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

  Italian, Males, Speak

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• A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Country, New York, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

  Himanshu Suri

  Thinking, Community, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• On the other side, the conservative party, composed of the most moderate, able, and cultivated part of the population, is timid, and merely defensive of property. It vindicates no right, it aspires to no real good, it brands no crime, it proposes no generous policy, it does not build, nor write, nor cherish the arts, nor foster religion, nor establish schools, nor encourage science, nor emancipate the slave, nor befriend the poor, or the Indian, or the immigrant.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Writing

  Essays, Second Series "Politics" (1844)

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• Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected - indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the "Democrats," he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).

  Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton of Brenchley

  Supposing That, White, Office

  "State Of Disunion: A 'Radical' Solution" by Christopher Monckton, www.wnd.com. January 28, 2014.

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• Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.

  Hazel Rochman

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

  Hazel Rochman (1993). “Against Borders: Promoting Books for a Multicultural World”, Chicago : American Library Association

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• We need to quit subsidizing the costs for illegal immigrants' residency in America immediately. How long will we allow them to siphon millions upon millions from honest taxpaying Americans by supporting their health care, welfare, education and criminal expenses?

  Newt Gingrich

  America, Long, Criminals

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• I unequivocally condemn the striking of the soldier from the Ethiopian community and those responsible will be brought to justice but nobody has the right to take the law into their own hands, immigrants from Ethiopia and their families are dear to us and Israel is making great efforts to ease their integration in society.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Hands, Law

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• We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true.

  Akhil

  Confused, Feelings, Wells

  "This Week in Fiction: Akhil Sharma". Interview with Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. January 10, 2014.

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• They [illegal immigrants] broke the law, but it's not a felony, it's an act of love. It's an act of commitment to your family.

  Jeb Bush

  Commitment, Law, Broke

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• My parents were immigrants. And the place for all immigrants was the factories. They were the source of cheap labor.

  Jack Kirby

  Parent, Source, Factories

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of diasporas, in terms of the migrations of immigrants coming to this [U.S.] country with a real vision of finding the promised land.

  Anne Waldman

  Country, Real, Land

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• America is a younger country than England, obviously, and as self-awareness is forming in America - are we a collection of immigrants, are we a load of Italians and Germans and Jews and Brits and Irish, or are we a country with a soul and an identity? - there was a subliminal sense, they knew that the writers would be the ones who would answer those questions.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Self, America

  "New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline". Interview with David Wallace-Wells, www.vulture.com. July 22, 2012.

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• I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Gun, Problem

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• Sometimes just being an immigrant, I read things the wrong way, and that can be funny. Or I'll put the emphasis on the wrong word, and that can be funny. I have an affinity for comedy because I like to watch them. It's an honor to make comedies because I love being able to pop something into the DVD player and laugh. I love doing it.

  John Cho

  Player, Love Is, Dvds

  Source: collider.com

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• Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love.

  Geraldine Ferraro

  Daughter, Running, Father

  Vice Presidential Nomination Acceptance Address, delivered 19 July 1984 at the Democratic National Convention, San Francisco

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