American Quote by Karan Mahajan

There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law was passed.…

— Noam Chomsky

To fully understand the roots of anti-Asian prejudice in America, you need to know about the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 that banned all…

— Simu Liu

“In May 1925, President Calvin Coolidge signed the National Origins Act into law. The new law effectively closed the United States to most Jewish…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“On July 1, President Calvin Coolidge signed the measure into law. With the act’s ratification, the country was set on a course to, by…

— Adrienne Berard

The admission of Oriental immigrants who cannot be amalgamated with our people has been made the subject either of prohibitory clauses in our treaties…

— William Howard Taft

The Immigration Act of 1924 closed our doors to virtually all non-European immigrants - a great wrong that was not rectified for decades.

— Max Boot

“In the leadup to the election of 1876, swing votes were tied to the issue of Chinese immigration in the same way that immigration…

— Lisa See

At times in the past, the U.S. did not restrict the number of immigrants.

— Jeff Hawkins

People who were not active in the intellectual life of the country could go on without feeling restricted, except they could not go where…

— Stefan Heym

I had to overcome a lot of barriers. Until 1947, it was illegal for people from the subcontinent to migrate to the U.S. The…

— Shahid Khan

It was right after Woodrow Wilson's first serious post-World War I repression, which deported thousands of people, effectively destroyed unions and independent press, and…

— Noam Chomsky

Restricted immigration is not an offensive but purely a defensive action. It is not adopted in criticism of others in the slightest degree, but…

— Calvin Coolidge