Different Quote by James Monroe

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they…

— Thomas Paine

If you look at the movement of refugees, in Vladimir Lenin's phrase, "the people who voted with their feet," the movement of refugees until…

— Bernard Lewis

Those who rebelled against totalitarian rule and those who simply managed to remain themselves and think freely, were all persecuted. We should not forget…

— Vaclav Havel

There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious…

— Wilton Daniel Gregory

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it…

— Thomas Jefferson

When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of religion is…

— Diana L. Eck

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political…

— Paul Harris

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

— Anonymous

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they…

— Kathryn Lasky

For centuries, our country has welcomed people fleeing religious persecution, war and humanitarian crises to create a better future for themselves and their futures.…

— Jaime Harrison

The Founders believed that pluralism survived only within the concept of religious liberty espoused by American Christianity.

— David Barton

We cannot forget that we are a nation founded by refugees who were fleeing oppression and often fearful for their lives.

— Brad Schneider