Immigrants Quotes · Page 20

“He had come to America, haven of peace and liberty, and it, too, was joining the slaughter, fighting for the big capitalists.…

— James T. Farrell

“perhaps we are all immigrants trading one home for another first we leave the womb for air then the suburbs for the…

— Rupi Kaur

The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country…

— Julius Streicher

Our immigrants joined a settler culture, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant, that demanded assimilation to its norms.

— Ross Douthat

President Trump proclaimed 'America First' from the inauguration stage. As an American Jew and daughter of immigrants, that slogan makes me shiver.

— Jan Schakowsky

America is or should be about inclusion. Immigrants like muslims don't and can't fit the white European mold that prevailed in this…

— Tom Gjelten

Our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language (that of the pre-digital age), are struggling to teach a population that speaks…

— Marc Prensky

Inequality provokes a generalized anger that finds targets where it can--immigrants, foreign countries, American elites, government in all forms--and it rewards demagogues…

— George Packer

I always heard that immigrants had a really hard life when they came to America. But when I showed up here, everyone…

— Sofia Vergara

America is a country of comparatively recent immigrants, so I'm part of a line there and the old Americans were thrown off…

— David Mackenzie

Even now in America, you know, when people say they hate immigrants, they're not referring to a Canadian immigrant. You know, they're…

— Trevor Noah

Finally, in my critique of the immigration image of America, it is also important to know that we're not only a nation…

— Samuel P. Huntington

I saw my parents come over. They were immigrants, they had no money. My dad wore the same pair of shoes, I…

— Amy Chua

I think a lot of the most interesting immigrant writing involves stepping outside of that old, dreary binary. Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker…

— Junot Diaz

I think there's always been a little performer in me. But having a family that are Jamaican immigrants, having this idea that,…

— Jodie Turner-Smith

“It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants––packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective…

— Zadie Smith

I'm sick of seeing the immigrants in the hotels and the Italians who sleep in cars. This is the racist country.

— Matteo Salvini

Allowing illegal immigrants that are gang members and criminals with COVID to enter the U.S. and receive citizenship is a slap in…

— Lauren Boebert

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

— Noam Chomsky

Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

— Opal Tometi

I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like…

— Anonymous

At the end of the day, it not only doesn't make logical sense to deny licenses to undocumented immigrants, it doesn't make…

— Cheech Marin

Our country is made up of groups of immigrants who came here hoping for a better life. They created America. It's a…

— Mazie Hirono

My parents are immigrants to this country. They came to this country for a better opportunity just like everyone else.

— Amine

We will hear more details on [Donald] Trump's plans on addressing illegal immigration in the speech tonight, including what Trump plans to…

— Kellyanne Conway

While I was growing up in Flushing, Queens, we socialized exclusively with other Chinese immigrants. I was forbidden to make contact with…

— Jenny Zhang

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

— Conan O'Brien

I reflect back on my mom's journey, someone who was an immigrant to Canada and came not knowing anything and figured it…

— Lilly Singh

That is a reward that humbles me: the fact that immigrants coming to America, much like I did, can come into a…

— Do Won Chang

When the citizens of Baltimore banded together to repel the British during the War of 1812, three in five were immigrants, and…

— Martin O'Malley

Arizona faces unique healthcare challenges including uncompensated care for illegal immigrants, and the large number of Native Americans who live in remote…

— Rick Renzi

There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.

— Luis Gutierrez

There needs to be more pressure on the Mexican government to stop the drugs and illegal immigrants on their side of the…

— Timothy Murphy

It would cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions of more [immigrants] for scarce jobs.

— Lamar S. Smith

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood…

— Eugene Jarecki

I like handling newborn animals. Fallen into life from an unmappable world, they are the ultimate immigrants, full of wonder and confusion.

— Diane Ackerman

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.

— Tacitus

Germany's population is getting older and older and smaller and smaller. To be able to finance our welfare system over the long…

— Paul Achleitner

Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

In Los Angeles and other cities, being around immigrants is inspiring. They are touching the American Dream and reminding you how much…

— Ryan Holiday