Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Immigration Quotes
Cultural ImpactDemographic ChangesHistoryImmigrationWar and Conflict There's a lot of history here. In terms of Asians in this country, you have a big influx after the Cultural Revolution, a big influx after the Korean War, a big influx after the Vietnam War.
ExploitationImmigrationLabor RightsLegal RightsSocioeconomic Issues Undocumented aliens unfortunately are not protected by the law, and they are tremendously subjected to exploitation. The result is that they would be willing to work for a wage that no person who is welcome in our shores would take.
BelongingEmpathyImmigrationNational IdentityStrangerhood My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.
ImmigrationInjustice The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
EducationHard WorkImmigrationOpportunitySelf-Improvement The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.
ImmigrationLogicStrategyTalent The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.
CommunityImmigrationJusticePerceptionPrejudice Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women who trim their lawns and put plates in front of them at restaurants, not with illegal immigrants passing through their backyards at 3 A.M.
FamilyHeritageHistoryImmigration Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
Immigration The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
ImmigrationIntegrationOpportunitySuccessWelcome As you know, I'm an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.
CivilityImmigrationInclusionLibertyOpportunity The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.
ConfidenceImmigrationLeadershipPoliticsPublic Opinion Ed Miliband's anti-immigration stance is odd: it's hard to vote for a man who doesn't have the confidence to defend his own existence.
IdentityImmigrationUnityWelcome Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.