Immigrant Quotes
Immigrant Quote of the day
If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.
Foisting an identity on people rather than allowing them the freedom and space to create their own is shady.
Every single immigrant we have, undocumented or documented, is a future American. That's just the truth of it.
Every single immigrant is part of a larger history that needs to be communicated in all its ambivalences and complexities.
Soon we could barely recognize them. They were taller than we were, and heavier. They were loud beyond belief. I feel like a duck that's hatched goose's eggs.
In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.
I grew up in an immigrant neighborhood. We just knew the rule was you're going to have to work twice as hard.
A hothouse flower trained to bloom out of season and in the wrong climate. I do not belong.
Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everything.
Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?
Margaret looked at the ring on her finger. "Gran gave me this before we boarded the ship. It's the most special thing in the world to me. I'll never take it off, Hanna. No matter how hungry I am.
That's what you do in America: you smile at people you don't know and you smile at people you don't even like and you smile for no reason.
In my entire life, I never once heard either of my parents say they were stressed. That was just not a phrase I grew up being allowed to say. That, and the concept of "Me time".
Let me put it this way. Canada is not so much a country as a holding tank filled with the disgruntled progeny of defeated peoples.
One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.
Zoe leaned closer to Ruth, nearly nose to nose. “If they were made from better stuff, they would have pretended the fault was theirs. They would have made a moment of it--a pretty moment.
But inside loss there can be gain, too, like the small silver spider Bela had discovered one dewy morning, curled asleep at the center of a rose.
I don't put much stock in remembering things. Being able to forget is a superior skill.
What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.
Push away the past, that vessel in which all emotions curdle to regret.