Emigration Quote by Hannah Arendt

“They must remember that they are constantly on the run, and that the world's reality is actually expressed by their escape.”

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“Takes a special kind to go another kind to stay here ........ Nowhere do such patriots so embrace the leaving of the place”

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“Because we were not in our country, we could not use our own languages, and so when we spoke our voices came out bruised.”

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On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length.

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A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.

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The emigrant's way o'er the western desert is mark'd by Camp-fires long consum'd and bones that bleach in the sunshine.

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Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished…

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