“ Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples. Mordecai Richler
“ If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters. Christine Pelosi
“ I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard. Lin-Manuel Miranda
“ Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration. Jan C. Ting
“ Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities. Jim Goldberg
“ NASSER: In this damn country that we hate and love, you can get anything you want. It's all spread out and availble. That's why I believe in England. You just have to know how to squeeze the tits of t… Hanif Kureishi
“ No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of… Timothy Garton Ash
“ Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it. Junot Diaz
“ Poor Father, I see his final exploration. He arrives at the new place, his hair risen in astonishment, his mouth and eyes dumb. His toe scuffs a soft storm of sand, he kneels and his arms spread in pa… E.L. Doctorow
“ If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of… Jan C. Ting
“ You could have just said Ngozi is your tribal name and Ifemelu is your jungle name and throw in one more as your spiritual name. They’ll believe all kinds of shit about Africa. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
“ A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong. Karen Levy
“ Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground? Alexander Hamilton
“ All the way, Zoe kept her chin up and pretended she wasn’t mortified, but his sour expression stayed with her. She wasn’t good at making American friends. She changed her language, conduct, and clothi… Michael Benzehabe
“ They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some place… Amanda Craig
“ Repeat after me:1. our immigrant families are not just ‘homophobic’ they are also ‘colonized.’2. our parents have histories, genders, and sexualities, too.3. they are just as broken as we are (but we… Darkmatter
