Top Immigrants Quotes

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all o...

What's with everybody always trying to get rid of the Indians? I said, not really asking for an answer. I thought again of the history-book pictures. Astronomers and brain surgeons. They should have d...

She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but did not like you to do so; they expected you to be silent and grateful, and always reminded you of ho...

A third layer of nativeness was composed of those whom others thought directly descended, even the tiniest fraction of their genes, from the human beings who had been brought from Africa centuries ago...

I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills that would otherwise be blamed on neighbours.

All Americans have something lonely about them. I don't know what the reason might be, except maybe that they're all descended from immigrants.

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

Paul Chehade is dedicated to serves the unfortunate, regardless of a person's religion, race, ethnicity, or gender, as a demonstration of God's unconditional love for all people, helping communities w...

He asked me if the alligator was a national symbol of the United States, because you saw them everywhere on people's shirts, just above the heart.

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow, h...

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

The factual reality is that the vast majority of immigrants - legal and illegal - contribute more to this country than they take out in social services.

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyph...

Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mirror.

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but si...

America is not a country of immigrants, we are a country of pioneers.

Donald Trump is a champion for legal immigrants.