Remnants Quote by Cambria Hebert

“I hope they pardoned them. The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that i wish it to be always…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The words from across the ocean were beaten out of them over time. For simplicity, to erase their identities, to smother uprisings.”

— Colson Whitehead

“you broke the ocean in half to be here. only to meet nothing that wants you. – immigrant”

— Nayyirah Waheed

“I looked at these refugees--and the for the first time, let myself really see them. Their faces felt familiar to me, somehow. The pain…

— Nicole Perlman

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

— Zadie Smith

“European emigrants and their descendants are all over the place, which requires explanation.”

— Alfred W. Crosby

“There is the truth of history, and there is the truth of what a person remembers. As {she} sat at the edge of {the…

— Rebecca Wells

“Some of those who had been among the most industrious, the kindest, and the most stalwart citizens of Village now went to the platform…

— Lois Lowry

“When we came to America, though, we didn't know what the right thing was. Here we lived with no map. We became invisible, the…

— Marina Budhos

“...but now that I view the scene in retrospect I see it as a very gentle and firm deportation, taking me from the country…

— Christopher Hitchens

“...the borders he respected were the borders of dreams, the misty borders of love and indifference, the borders of courage and fear, the golden…

— Roberto Bolaño

“empty, what was to stop vagrants, or even”

— Pam Jenoff