Immigration Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

The American story is a story of immigration. I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

— Phil Gramm

I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.

— Andrew Lam

The popular story is that America was built by immigrants and that, therefore, everything about immigration is good and leads to a more successful…

— James Howard Kunstler

“We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so, we turn, among other things, to stories.”

— Mohsin Hamid

That experience of losing home, longing for home, that yearning for meaning and rootedness and identity in a floating world, it's what often makes…

— Andrew Lam

“I came to understand that in the United States, land of the fabled American dream, it is un-American to be a refugee. The refugee…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“Let my story remind you that behind every refugee is a human being, a unique story waiting to be heard.”

— Hagir Elsheikh

As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how…

— Andrew Lam

“When people make wars, they make refugees.”

— Michael Morpurgo

Throughout history, groups of Americans have attacked immigrants who fled danger and destruction at home and arrived in America hoping for the opportunities those…

— Jack Schlossberg

I feel I have a responsibility to carry out the immigrant story, since it's one that I hold very dear to my heart, since…

— Dania Ramirez

All human stories are migration stories because everyone is a refugee from their own childhood.

— Mohsin Hamid