Migrant Quotes
26 quotes by 25 authors
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The comfortable people in tight houses felt pity at first, and then distaste, and finally hatred for the migrant people.
— John Steinbeck
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The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
— Luis Valdez
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When I see the migrant workers broken bodies and eyes without hope, I want to embrace and wipe away their fears. It makes me angry…
— Irene Fernandez
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Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
— Laila Lalami
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I think that Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world, the way it has managed a diverse population, a migrant economy.…
— Barack Obama
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One of the most important improvements in the No Child Left Behind Act for migrant students was the requirement for electronic transfer of migrant student…
— Ruben Hinojosa
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Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and…
— Ruth First
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My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
— Caitlin Flanagan
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As long as they are working, they should be legalized. I admire so much each and every migrant. They are the most loyal workers in…
— Vicente Fox
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Monsanto doesn't care about feeding the world. We have to think about the wage slavery of migrant workers and salary slavery of those who are…
— Wendell Berry
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I have a very powerful sense of place, but I have a very powerful sense of being a migrant, so it's both. It seems like…
— Junot Diaz
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It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
— Richard Leakey
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In Illinois, community, migrant, homeless and public housing health centers operate 268 primary care sites and serve close to 1 million patients every year.
— Jan Schakowsky
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel…
— Dallas Willard
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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a…
— Amin Maalouf
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I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are…
— Stephen Colbert
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Not only after two or three centuries, but in a million years, life will still be as it was; life does not change, it remains…
— Anton Chekhov
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How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to…
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming as migrant workers when I…
— Dolores Huerta
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I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like…
— Sandra Cisneros
Who Wrote These Migrant Quotes
25 authors contributed a total of 26 Migrant Quotes as follows: