I grew up in Venezuela, and when I was 14-years-old, my parents decided to sell everything and come to America. Five of… — Wilmer Valderrama Copy Share Image
Our schools face immense pressures caused by the different needs and languages of children from immigrant families, particularly in urban areas. — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
Being in the immigrant rights space, I've heard a lot of transactional talk with questions like, 'When will black people show up… — Opal Tometi Copy Share Image
In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
My father was the classic epitome of a very hard immigrant-worker. He made up for his lack of education by working really… — Jonny Kim Copy Share Image
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing… — Rose Schneiderman Copy Share Image
A characteristic thing about the aspiring immigrant is the fact that he is not content to progress alone. Solitary success is imperfect… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Mum used to hide love letters from my boyfriends and put me down. Now I understand that she was a Polish immigrant… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
We help immigrants because we are an immigrant nation, and we are an immigrant church. We've always done that; this is nothing… — Blase J. Cupich Copy Share Image
“My SOUTH sign stopped working on an entrance ramp in a sleepy farm town called Kittitas in the state of Washington. A… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
Often when you're an immigrant writing in English, people think it's primarily a commercial choice. But for many of us, it's a… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
“Immigrant parents, when they first move to North America, push towards whiteness, towards assimilation, to survive and thrive. Naturally, their children do… — Scaachi Koul Copy Share Image
As an immigrant, I am grateful for the tremendous opportunities that this great nation has afforded me and my family. I am… — Raja Krishnamoorthi Copy Share Image
Going back to the discussion we were having about immigration reform, some of the most challenging discussions I've had are with activists… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. — Irwin Redlener Copy Share Image
In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Take it from this immigrant from Israel, a proud Israeli-American, born in Egypt, a Muslim country: America is great. Not perfect, but… — Haim Saban Copy Share Image
Decades of racist, dehumanizing immigration policies have created systems that have criminalized and traumatized our immigrant neighbors, friends, and families in St.… — Cori Bush Copy Share Image
I am very proud to come from a diverse family. My mother is an immigrant from Japan and my father is from… — J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Copy Share Image
Our nation is the enduring dream of every immigrant who ever set foot on these shores, and the millions still struggling to… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
I can understand the value of the immigrant experience and that we have become the nation that we are because people like… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
Part of the reason why my folks - why any immigrant family - wants their kids to go into law or medicine… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
I came from a traditional immigrant family where education meant there were only a few valid paths: doctor or lawyer - and… — Suheir Hammad Copy Share Image
Immigrant characters now are getting much more well-rounded, and they have personalities, which is important because we do need to portray immigrants… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
I grew up with a single mum, an immigrant mum who couldn't speak the language, no money, three kids on her back,… — Ncuti Gatwa Copy Share Image
As the proud daughter of a Greek immigrant who came to the United States in search of the American Dream, I feel… — Nicole Malliotakis Copy Share Image
By the time I was 16, I was someone to reckon with. I was so eager to repudiate any connection with any… — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or… — Jacques Pepin Copy Share Image
Looking at the history of our country, we have been and we are pro-immigrant, but we aren't going to be much of… — Wendy Long Copy Share Image
Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Being an immigrant mother can be hard, but being a poor immigrant mother is much harder. You don't generally get to sit… — Pamela Druckerman Copy Share Image
I was the one that in a very overconfident immigrant way thought I knew exactly how to raise my kids. My husband… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place… — Jade Chang Copy Share Image
My story is an immigrant story. My story is of people moving from one country thousands of miles away to another and… — Lenny Henry Copy Share Image
My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34. — John Gokongwei Copy Share Image
Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people… — Maxine Waters Copy Share Image
When I was at MIT I was a good model minority. But the concept of an Indian immigrant creating e-mail in Newark,… — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
![“[My father] came over as an immigrant and didn't know any English. He went to work at a sweat shop in Baltimore. He told me later that this guy was coming around, and the guy seemed to be for the workers, so he signed up. It turned out that guy was an IWW organizer . My father didn't regret…” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/291/noam-chomsky-42_baltimore_my-father-came-over-as-an-immigrant-and_1206995.jpg)
