Migration Quote by Isabel Wilkerson

My parents were migrants and I experienced first hand the challenges they had to overcome. If they hadn't decided to seek a better life…

— Kalidou Koulibaly

What I love about the stories of the Great Migration is that this is not ancient history; this is living history. Most people of…

— Isabel Wilkerson

I wonder the human race has been so fond of migrations, when the young take so hardly to traveling.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

“All told, perhaps the most significant measure of the Great Migration was the act of leaving itself, regardless of the individual outcome. Despite the…

— Vintage

My parents are both immigrants, and we traveled a lot.

— Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

I mean my mother migrated from Georgia -Rome, Georgia, to Washington, D.C., where she then met my father, who was a Tuskegee Airman who…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in recorded history. Across the…

— George H. W. Bush

“Over the decades, perhaps the wrong questions have been asked about the Great Migration. Perhaps it is not a question of whether the migrants…

— Isabel Wilkerson

Like the Caribbean Windrush generation, my parents came to this country from the Commonwealth in the 1960s. They, too, came to help rebuild this…

— Sajid Javid

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones like the…

— William Barr

Migration was not the only unpleasant experience I went though. I was born and lived in a country ruled by a brutal dictator whose…

— Hassan Blasim

When I was a young child, my parents came to America in search of a better life for them and their family.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi