Top Immigration Quotes

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the conditions of peace and chaos that impact the l...

Immigration Definition

(n.) The act of immigrating; the passing or coming into a country for the purpose of permanent residence.

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...

I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families that have been here a quarter century.

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...

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system,non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor,judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush'...

Democracy's fatal flaw: There are more dumb people than smart people. Welcome to the new Dark Ages!

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

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

Building bridges takes us further than building walls.

People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to

Why are you perpetuating a childhood you grew up despising? Pg 57

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

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...

Trump didn't divide America. He just doused us with gasoline and fanned the flames.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

These dreamsThese empty dreamsfrom the make-believe bedroomstheir parents left themare the after-effectsof television programsabout the idealwhite american familywith black maidsand latino janitorswho...

Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87