Immigrant Quotes
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Never before in the history of our State have Oregonians had so much to be congratulated upon. No State in the Union is receiving more attention. Her agricultural products, her mild climate, her great natural resources, invite the immigrant, the capitalist and the pleasure seeker, while the sound basis upon which rest her finances, and the fact that within two years her taxable property has increased more than ten millions of dollars, clearly indicate that the State, in the face of a general business depression throughout the land, is in no danger of deterioration of decay.
Zenas Ferry moody— Governor Zenas F. Moody – Biennial Message, 1885. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State.
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.
gianfranco fini— Corriere della Sera, Fini: diamo il diritto di voto agli immigrati, 7 October 2003
Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.
theodore kaczynski— "Feelings of Inferiority", item 12
Never before in the history of our State have Oregonians had so much to be congratulated upon. No State in the Union is receiving more attention. Her agricultural products, her mild climate,her great natural resources, invite the immigrant, the capitalist and the pleasure seeker, while the sound basis upon which rest her finances, and the fact that within two years her taxable property has increased more than ten millions of dollars, clearly indicate that the State, in the face of a general business depression throughout the land, is in no danger of deterioration of decay.
Zenas Ferry moody— Governor Zenas F. Moody: Biennial Message, 1885. Oregon State Archives, Oregon Secretary of State.
But that has nothing to do with ethnicity. Who's by the way Swedish and who's an immigrant?
mona sahlin— Mona Sahlin answers a question about increased crime and immigration in the Ungt val (eng. Young Election/Choice) section of the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet, March 15, 2002.
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
anzia yezierska— How I Found America, pt. 3, from Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920)
It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
Zinedine Zidane— Interview, 2004 [2]
[My forthcoming book features] Noelle's experience as a loveable, yet very unconventional looking dog, who must find her way through life in her new adopted home, feeling different and confronting a bevy of clustered animal cliques whose ultimate reluctance to include Noelle in their world is soon offset by Noelle's true, albeit hidden, beauty. [I hope it has] special resonance with the immigrant communities in the United States (primarily of Hispanic heritage) who may, like Noelle, feel they culturally do not, and will not, fit in with a culture so foreign from their own.
gloria estefan— written statement on December 6, 2004
I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially from the immigrant perspective.
gloria estefan— The Book Standard (4 June 2005)
Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.
ilana mercer— “A July Fourth Toast to Thomas Jefferson—And the Anglo-Saxon Tradition,” VDARE.com, July 4, 2008.
Nearly everyone who is unemployed votes "Democrat." Nearly every immigrant, at least in the first generation, votes "Democrat." Nearly every non-white American votes "Democrat." The GOP know that so intellectually and financially bankrupt an administration should never have been re-elected – indeed, given the scale of electoral fraud practiced by the “Democrats,” he may not actually have been re-elected (always supposing that he had the constitutional right to hold the office of president in the first place).
christopher monckton— State of Disunion: A 'radical' solution WorldNetDaily, January 28, 2014.
American life is a powerful solvent. As it stamps the immigrant, almost before he can speak English, with an unmistakable muscular tension, cheery self-confidence and habitual challenge in the voice and eyes, so it seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
george santayana— "The Academic Environment" p. 47 (Hathi Trust)
Jefferson never entertained the folly that he was of immigrant stock. He considered the English settlers of America courageous conquerors, much like his Saxon forebears, to whom he compared them. To Jefferson, early Americans were the contemporary carriers of the Anglo-Saxon project.
— “A July Fourth Toast to Thomas Jefferson—And the Anglo-Saxon Tradition,” VDARE.com, July 4, 2008.
Times are ripe to discuss about the vote right, at least on an administrative level, for immigrant persons.
— Corriere della Sera, Fini: diamo il diritto di voto agli immigrati, 7 October 2003
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
— How I Found America, pt. 3, from Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920)
And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nation's Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future.
— John F. Kennedy, address to the Massachusetts legislature (January 9, 1961); reported in Congressional Record (January 10, 1961), vol. 107, Appendix, p. A169.
Yes, we become stronger when men and women, young and old, gay and straight, native-born and immigrant fight together to create the kind of country we all know we can become.
Bernie Sanders— Sanders' Speeck at the Democratic Convention; July 26, 2016
