Migration is an expression of the human aspiration for dignity, safety and a better future. It is part of the social fabric, part of our very make-up as a human family
We cannot and should not stop people from migration. We have to give them a better life at home. Migration is a process, not a problem.
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.
I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong.
The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.
Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.
Migration is a feature of globalisation. You can’t stop it; so every time a political party says it is going to be tough on immigration, it fails to deliver and loses trust.
I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.
Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.
We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.
Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.
I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.
Actually what is happening in the twenty-first century, this is the great century of migration, so we have people from all around the globe going all over the place, and they have to integrate into a society, that society that exists has to integrate with them. Both sides have to work at it. It's not a one-way thing.
Migration - whether emigration or return - at the micro level is an individual choice, and government both at the Centre and the states have role only to facilitate the decision of the individuals.
Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.
History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.
If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality.
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.
The whole story of migration and what that has done in interconnecting the planet is obviously something I've written about a lot.
What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of color can find someone in their own family who had experienced a migration of some kind, knowing the sense of dislocation, longing and fortitude.
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