Immigrant Quotes - page 5

As a woman, I completely reject Hillary's brand of bourgeois feminism because it leaves out millions of immigrant women, poor women, and the women under her bombs around the world. (Abby Martin)
In the course of history the refugee was the first peaceful immigrant. In a social structure offering no place for a stranger, the unfortunate who had" taken the flight and so evaded death and black fate" at the hands of his enemies was sheltered under the sacred law of hospitality, since he came "as a fugative and a suppliant." View quote
Eugene M. Kulischer
One may oppose immigration. It is an opinion of one's own. But questioning the dignity of an immigrant is unacceptable. (...) I have not seen that these people [the leaders of the Finns Party] who have been convicted exactly of insulting dignity would have shown efficient regretting. View quote
Sauli Niinisto
The Chinese and Japanese are perhaps the most industrious of all races, while the Chinese are the most docile. The Japanese excel in imitativeness, but are not as reliable as the Chinese. Neither race, so far as their immigrant representatives are concerned, possesses the originality and ingenuity which characterize the competent American and British mechanic. View quote
John R. Commons
Immigrant parents don't want their children to suffer or have to live harder than they did. View quote
Jenny Han
My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. View quote
Arthur Rock
We are all human beings, immigrant or non-immigrant. We all feel fear. We all love and become confused when we don't act as well as we would like to. We all get depressed and have feelings of uselessness. All of these things are true and have always been true. View quote
Akhil Sharma
I took Laura on a trip once where we followed the Immigrant Trail for about six hundred miles. She really learned a lesson. People forget too often how it was back then. View quote
Bruce Dern
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that he's the ultimate immigrant. He has all these extraordinary powers, and he has a righteousness about him. View quote
Bryan Singer
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself. View quote
Caitlin Flanagan
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters. (Christine Pelosi)
Personally, it's a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America. View quote
Dinaw Mengestu
I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world. View quote
Dan Rosensweig
It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker. View quote
Daniel Libeskind
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Because too often we've sounded like people who wish they hadn't come here at all. View quote
Francis Maude
Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control. View quote
Irwin Redlener
Like other important immigrant communities, the Jewish experience in the United States represents the ideal of freedom and the promise and opportunity of America. View quote
Jan Schakowsky
As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience. View quote
Jennifer Gilmore
My grandfather was a Russian-Jewish immigrant who lived in Northern Ireland and apparently when he sang in the synagogue he made everyone cry. View quote
Jessie Ware
One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you. View quote
Joseph O'Neill
The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant. (Josiah Strong)
We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be. View quote
Luis Gutierrez
I don't know if it's because my father's from Argentina, that I'm the son of an immigrant, I don't know if its because I'm Jewish, but I have always been mindful that the best insights occur when you have some kind of an outsider perspective. View quote
Mark Leibovich
No country has been more invigorated by immigrant culture, more rewarded by immigrant labor and immigrant ideas than America. View quote
Marc Veasey
As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally. View quote
Alfred Lin