Mexican American Quotes

• I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mexican, Latina, Certain

  FaceBook post by Sandra Cisneros from May 29, 2011

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• I can tell you what I believe, particularly about Mexican-Americans: they are a community that has contributed greatly to this country, they work extremely hard, they've been very productive citizens of our country, and I think that's true of many ethnic groups in this country.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "GOP worries about Donald Trump fallout" by Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 8, 2015.

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• Cinco de Mayo has come to represent a celebration of the contributions that Mexican Americans and all Hispanics have made to America.

  Joe Baca

  America, Mexican, Celebration

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• I have many friends who are both Mexican and Mexican-American and others who, I guess you would say, are somewhere in between. The ironic thing is that all three of those categories often exist inside of the same family.

  Conor Oberst

  Mexican, Ironic, Three

  "‘MariKKKopa’: Conor Oberst Explains New Desaparecidos Track, Which Takes Aim At Sheriff Joe Arpaio". Interview with Kia Makarechi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2012.

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• There's something about my Mexican-American heritage... I'm proud of it.

  Christian Camargo

  Mexican, Heritage, Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is America, where a white Catholic male Republican judge was murdered on his way to greet a Democratic Jewish woman member of Congress, who was his friend. Her life was saved initially by a 20-year old Mexican-American gay college student, and eventually by a Korean-American combat surgeon, all eulogized by our African American President.

  Mark Shields

  Gay, College, White

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• The one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not politically correct.

  Russell Means

  American Indian, Politically Correct, One Thing

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

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• You see the one thing I've always maintained is that I'm an American Indian. I'm not a Native American. I'm not politically correct. Everyone who's born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American. We are all Native Americans. And if you notice, I put American before my ethnicity. I'm not a hyphenated African-American or Irish-American or Jewish-American or Mexican-American.

  Russell Means

  Native American, Ethnicity, Mexican

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

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• This is me putting it simply; the politicians are one demographic and they see that Arizona is changing. I feel like the only instinct to retain power is to have education favor you. You have this Mexican American program that helps kids take ownership of their race and their power. It threatens the political powers that are in place.

  Matt de la Pena

  Kids, Race, Mexican

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hopefully I'll be the first Mexican-American going into Hillbilly Heaven.

  Freddy Fender

  Mexican, Heaven, Firsts

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• I will tell you something about stories . . . They aren't just entertainment. Don't be fooled. They are all we have, you see, all we have to fight off illness and death.

  Leslie Marmon Silko

  Death, Reading, Health

  Leslie Marmon Silko (1977). “Ceremony”, New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books

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• I happen to have a tremendous feeling for Mexican-Americans, not only in terms of friendships but in terms of the tremendous numbers that I employ in the United States. And they are amazing people, amazing people.

  Donald Trump

  Numbers, People, Mexican

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm Mexican-American, but for a long time I was pushed out of any references to Mexican-American writers. It was easier to come out as a gay man than it was to come out as a Mexican-American.

  John Rechy

  Gay, Men, Long

  "'I'm a Writer Who Hustled, Not a Hustler Who Wrote': An Interview With John Rechy". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. December 9, 2013.

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• In terms of the revolution, I believe that the revolution will be a revolution of dispossessed people in this country: that's the Mexican American, the Puerto Rican American, the American Indian, and black people.

  H. Rap Brown

  Country, Believe, People

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• Imagine Americans who go to Paris. Why would you want to go where someone's going to disparage you? Why would you go anywhere where they treat you bad? Well, that's how it is for us to go to Mexico. You have to be on your guard, because I think the Mexicans are harder on the Mexicans, the Mexican-Americans. They don't see us as Mexican. I think part of it's a class issue and a color issue. We're more connected to their servants, so what are we doing staying at a nice hotel? There's a kind of shame.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Nice, Thinking, Color

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• You can love the Mexican culture, you can love your Mexican-American wife and also believe that we need to control the border.

  Jeb Bush

  Love, Believe, Wife

  "Early Start" with Christine Romans and John Berman, www.cnn.com. July 9, 2015.

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• Friends started saying, "Oh, don't come. No vengas. It's dangerous for us, and we live here." Then there's also the issue, if you go back, and you happen to be Mexican-American, you get treated very differently [in Mexico] than if you're blond. If you say something wrong, they say, "Why don't you learn your mother tongue?"

  Sandra Cisneros

  Mother, Issues, Mexican

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• [ Donald Trump] is a man who ran on building a wall. And I know it was about legal immigration, but he did say incredibly vociferous things about Mexican-Americans and the Latino community that, frankly, regardless of if you take him literally or not, which most of his supporters don't - while they took him seriously, they didn't take him literally.

  Margaret Hoover

  Wall, Men, Community

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The Donald Trump who showed up at this press conference, though he did extend his hand to President Pena Nieto, say, I consider you a friend, he said he talked about first-generation, second-
  generation, third-generation Mexican-American, he said - his words here - he considers them beyond reproach.

  Steve Kornacki

  Hands, Mexican, President

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• We also discussed [with the President of Mexico] the great contributions of Mexican-American citizens to our two countries, my love for the people of Mexico, and the leadership and friendship between Mexico and the United States. It was a thoughtful and substantive conversation and it will go on for awhile. And, in the end we're all going to win. Both countries, we're all going to win.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thoughtful, Winning

  Source: time.com

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• In terms of my own plans, I anticipate supporting one of the three, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio or John Kasich as our nominee. If they don't become the nominee, then I'm probably going to go to the voting booth and find someone else who's running as a conservative or perhaps just write in the name of someone I believe should become the president of the United States, who I could be proud of and who I believe is interested in balancing the budget, keeping America safe with a strong military, and is not willing to disparage fellow Americans, Mexican-Americans, Muslims, and so forth.

  Mitt Romney

  Running, Strong, Military

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• The United States has used force abroad more than 130 times, but has only declared war five times - the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Spanish-American War, and World Wars I and II.

  John Yoo

  War, Mexican, United States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The intelligence community is so vast that more people have top secret clearance than live in Washington. The U.S. will spend more on the war in Afghanistan this year, adjusting for inflation, than we spent on the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War and the Spanish-American War combined.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  War, Years, People

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• After the Reagan years, there were only three people of color in the Republican Party. Their slogan was 'Republicans - the Other White Meat.' George [H.] Bush tried to dispel the 'whites only' image of his party, often referring to his Mexican-American grandkids as 'the little brown ones over there,' and nominated Clarence Uncle Thomas to the Supreme Court.

  Kate Clinton

  Uncles, Party, Color

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