Migration Quotes

• 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

  Ban Ki-moon

  Expression, Safety, Fabric

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• 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.

  William L. Swing

  Inspiring, Home, People

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• History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Science, Men, History

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Xenophobia, Patriotic, Usa

  Remarks before Daughters of the American Revolution Convention, Washington, D.C., 21 Apr. 1938. Often paraphrased as Roosevelt's addressing the DAR as "my fellow immigrants."

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• 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.

  Antonio Guterres

  People, Choices, Humanity

  "U.N. Refugee Chief: Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis Is 'Lagging Far Behind'". time.com. April 23, 2015.

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• All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Childhood, Stories, Refugee

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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  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.

  George Washington

  Land, America, Atheism

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.5, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Land, Immigration, Culture

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.1039, Best Books on

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• Migration has been politicized before it has been analyzed.

  Paul Collier

  Has Beens

  Paul Collier (2013). “Exodus: How Migration is Changing Our World”, p.12, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Poetry is a sky dark with a wild-duck migration.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dark, Sky, Ducks

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.318, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Margaret Hodge

  Party, Political, Immigration

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• 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.

  Mohsin Hamid

  War, Moving, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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.

  Vladimir Zhirinovsky

  Men, Bird, Troops

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• A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.

  Ronald Reagan

  Borders, Nations, Nationalism

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• Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Diversity, Like You

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• Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Fabric, Migrants, American Life

  President John F. Kennedy (2016). “A Nation Of Immigrants”, p.11, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• 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.

  Roma Tearne

  People, Twenties, Way

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing.

  Bill Gates

  Success, Political, Investing

  "Bill Gates backs immigration reform on Mexico trip". www.reuters.com. March 21, 2007.

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• 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.

  Vayalar Ravi

  Government, Individual Choice, Decision

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• Although mountains may guide migrations, the plains are the regions where people dwell in greatest numbers.

  Ellsworth Huntington

  Numbers, People, House

  Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.20, VM eBooks

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• Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.

  Emma Lazarus

  Tired, Civilization, Urbanization

  "The New Colossus" l. 10 (1883).

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• I simply don't understand the refugee crisis. The history of humanity can be told through a story of migration and settlement. If I can't protect my family, I'm coming to where you are; I'm just coming. It's a round world, and we've all got to get on with it and move on.

  Paul Bettany

  Moving, Refugee Crisis, Humanity

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems.

  Michael Franti

  Refugee Crisis, Land, Water

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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• Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered

  Franz Boas

  People, Study, Influence

  Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.64, University of Chicago Press

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• There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Thinking, Lemmings, Matter

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.194, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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