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Tag Name "Immigrant" (170)

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I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society
Tony Abbott
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The city has become a serious menace to our civilization It has a peculiar attraction for the immigrant.
Josiah Strong
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Considering our history, I can think of nothing more American than an immigrant.
Conor Oberst
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If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
Christine Pelosi
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In Washington State, the immigrant population has grown by 42 percent in the five years between 2000 and 2005 - which is an increase from 8 percent to 10.6 percent of the overall population - and the jobless rate in the state has hit a 6 year low.
Dave Reichert
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People want a result. Immigrant voters aren't stupid, and they're going to know who's on their side.
Tom Snyder
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A lot of Broadway has that immigrant narrative of America as a place where you can become something else against all odds.
Deborah Kass
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Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
Jim Goldberg
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I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
Gary Shteyngart
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I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
Elia Kazan
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[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible.
Andrew Lam
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
Samuel P. Huntington
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In novels and autobiographies, the first positive move that the immigrant makes towards assimilation is to buy himself a suit of city clothes.
Jonathan Raban
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I try not to focus on politics too much - I would never be described as a hugely political woman - but the fact of the matter is, just me being a female, immigrant, stand-up comedian, single-mother ... that is political. We still live in a world where a woman with a voice is a political gesture.
Katherine Ryan
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Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.
Henry Louis Gates
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My mother was an immigrant from Lebanon to the United States. She came when she was 18 years old in 1920.
George J. Mitchell
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Conservatives aren't anti-immigrant - conservatives are pro-legal immigration.
Marco Rubio
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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.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Immigrant families have integrated themselves into our communities, establishing deep roots. Whenever they have settled, they have made lasting contributions to the economic vitality and diversity of our communities and our nation. Our economy depends on these hard-working, taxpaying workers. They have assisted America in its economic boom.
Edward Kennedy
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
Peter Jennings
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I have a lot of rage about things that didn't happen to me, tied up with watching an immigrant, working-class father struggle to make his way through the world - and seeing how society was modeled to keep him in his place.
Dennis Lehane
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One limits oneself in this country if you come as a legal immigrant to this country and you choose to only speak your language whether it be Polish or Russian like many of my own relatives who came here if you speak only Russian and Polish you're limiting your opportunities in the United States.
Andrew Breitbart
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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.
Akhil
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You could say that Trump is the 21st century version of Pat Buchanan. Protectionist, anti-immigrant.
Eleanor Clift
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