Century Quote by Noam Chomsky

“Thanks in good part to that 1911 congressional report and to Lombroso, the United States passed the Immigration Act of 1924, more or less…

— Helene Stapinski

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

— Max Boot

American policies toward Asians reached a nadir in 1924, with the implementation of a law that sought 'to preserve the idea of American homogeneity'…

— Karan Mahajan

“In the end the Senate decided that there was no emergency, nor were there grounds for a general ban on immigration. Still, like their…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“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

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

— Jeff Hawkins

“Regional tensions and differences, especially North versus South, remained profound. So did ethnic feelings. Laws from the 1920s had drastically reduced legal immigration, thereby…

— James T. Patterson

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

— Rick Santorum

We had had mass immigration from the late 1800s all the way through the early 1900s to the 1920s, and we had to pause…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

“This was mere unfounded prejudice--that seems obvious to me--because neither before nor after existed, nor any place to immigrate from, but there were those…

— Italo Calvino