Immigration Quote by Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Immigration teaches you to bend. Courage is remembering who you are.”

— Angelika Regossi

“Working behind the scenes to advance his candidacy, Hamilton seemed unfazed by the fact that virtually all other commissions were going to native New…

— Willard Sterne Randall

“In the end, nobody would do more than Alexander Hamilton to infuse life into this parchment and make it the working mandate of the…

— Ron Chernow

“Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would…

— Jade Chang

“Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.”

— Joseph J. Ellis

“There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living…

— George Will

“The interaction of disparate cultures, the vehemence of the ideals that led the immigrants here, the opportunity offered by a new life, all gave…

— John F. Kennedy

“America’s great promise! The promise of the immigrant! The promise of the American Dream! The promise that the people of this country used to…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“It continues to impress me how fluently Americans, even immigrants like her, speak of their achievements.”

— Olivia Sudjic

“Americans could achieve Jefferson’s democratic freedoms through Hamilton’s economic development strategies and trade policies.”

— Patrick Mendis

“My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American.”

— Henry Miller

“When an immigrant speaks of feeling uncomfortable just know, you are in the presence of man who knows what the sting of assimilation is.”

— Hannah V. Sawyerr