1960s Quote by Noam Chomsky

Why do we start immigration in 1965? Guess whose idea it was? Ted Kennedy. Ted Kennedy, 1965, we needed to reinstitute the immigration laws.…

— Rush Limbaugh

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a…

— Clarence Thomas

From 1924 to 1965, 41 years, essentially, there was no immigration. Try telling people that in the midst of this debate and they won't…

— Rush Limbaugh

Before ICE, we had Immigration and Naturalization Services, but it wasn't until about 1999 that we chose to criminalize immigration at all. And then,…

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

We went 60 years or more with no immigration, folks. It can be done. The only reason that it started up again, Ted Kennedy…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Racist intentions—not policies—became covert after the 1960s.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“1966 and 1968 were a world removed from each other in the political and cultural life of the United States . . .”

— Joan Didion

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

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots…

— Noam Chomsky

Like, for example, way back then,[George W.] Bush could have passed immigration reform, just like [Barack] Obama could have when he first came in.…

— Rudy Giuliani

“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

“THE ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the most vivid…

— James T. Patterson