Immigrant Quotes · Page 2

America was and is the immigrant's dream.

— Don DeLillo

I think being an immigrant makes me overly optimistic.

— Ilhan Omar

Once you are an immigrant, you never forget that you are one.

— Jorge Ramos

Immigrant communities have been genuinely accepted in London.

— Sadiq Khan

My father's immigrant story is a big part of who I am.

— Tom Suozzi

Being an immigrant gives you so much courage.

— Dania Ramirez

I want to present the immigrant community in more of a real light.

— Diane Guerrero

We cannot be a pro-immigrant party only when it is convenient.

— Luis Gutierrez

I'm a female black immigrant lawyer, who raised her kids in and around Toronto.

— Leslyn Lewis

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

— Caitlin Flanagan

My mother is deeply pragmatic by nature. Perhaps you had to be, as an immigrant. You made do.

— Celeste Ng

As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.

— Opal Tometi

“One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

— Junot Diaz

Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.

— Max Boot

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

— Peter Jennings

The immigrant experience in 'Ilustrado' was only a small part of what I intended to be a broader look at the Filipino…

— Miguel Syjuco

That's sort of part of the American ethic - is not to worry too much about the past and that it shouldn't…

— Alex Wagner

I'm a brown-skinned Indian immigrant, low-caste untouchable - I don't know how many labels you want to put on me - who's…

— Shiva Ayyadurai

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even…

— Saul Rubinek

We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act…

— Anonymous

I don't think France is a racist country, I really don't, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past,…

— Vincent Cassel

I became an immigrant, civil and human rights advocate, then the first South Asian elected to the Washington State Legislature and the…

— Pramila Jayapal

In my life as an immigrant living in low-income communities, as an emergency physician and as a public health advocate, I have…

— Leana S. Wen

My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer…

— John Oliver

“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I…

— Dionne Brand

'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the…

— Joyce Carol Oates

...despite all this, it is still hard to admit that there is no one more English than the Indian, no one more…

— Zadie Smith

I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at…

— Eric Schlosser

“These are immigrant times And the lines are long, The signs for jobs few, The songs sadder, the air meaner. Everyone is…

— Alberto Ríos

For me, as an immigrant who didn't speak the language, when I would have struggles as a kid, my dad would say,…

— Ilhan Omar

As an immigrant, I truly believed when I was coming to this country that people had the tools necessary to life to…

— Ilhan Omar

Well, I am a conservative Republican, and I am an immigrant.

— Young Kim

New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and…

— Edmund White

Hispanic citizens know that illegal labor is taking jobs from their children and their legal immigrant friends.

— Tom Tancredo

It is important to have safe borders, but at the same time, we can't forget what brought us here. This is an…

— Dara Khosrowshahi

I never did very well as an immigrant. I've lived in several countries and been a disaster everywhere.

— Aravind Adiga

It's every immigrant child's dream to tell your parents they don't have to work anymore.

— Simu Liu

There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.

— Rupi Kaur

I came in as a legal immigrant. My dad came first. We had to wait about a year.

— Shiva Ayyadurai