Quotes about Immigrants

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I have this feeling that immigrants unwittingly help to keep peace between nations by being scapegoats for national ills — Agona Apell
For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from — Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban
What tethers me to my parents is the unspoken dialogue we share about how much of my character is built on the connectio — Durga Chew-Bose, Too Much and Not the Mood
We of alien looks or words must stick together. — C.J. Sansom, Revelation
It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means. — Ronald Reagan
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian i — Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future: The Unabomber Manifesto
After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote about — Marina Gorbis, The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World
My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ran — Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
An hour later, Amina stood at a pay phone in a mall hallway, where poop and perfume and the grease from the food court f — Mira Jacob, The Sleepwalker's Guide to Dancing
As we encounter each other, we see our diversity — of background, race, ethnicity, belief – and how we handle that diver — Dan Smith, The State of the World Atlas
People floating like pollen in search of more fertile soil. — Andrew Crofts, Secrets of the Italian Gardener
Doomed to Hell. Every last one of you. — June Ahern, The Skye in June
How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: — Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea
Superorganism. A biologist coined that word for our great African ant colonies, claiming that consciousness and intellig — Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone
Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a — Marjane Satrapi
Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, jud — Colin Quinn, The Coloring Book: A Comedian Solves Race Relations in America
Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't. — DaShanne Stokes
Bigotry hurts the economy, so the next time you want to blame minorities for your problems, first take a look in the mir — DaShanne Stokes
Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around — Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior
It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she said — Sergio Troncoso, From This Wicked Patch of Dust