Videos About Immigration
To watch a video about immigration please click on the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmYxhS4-vnQ&feature=youtube_gdata
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Quotes About Immigration
- “I take issue with many people's description of people being "Illegal" Immigrants. There aren't any illegal Human Beings as far as I'm concerned.” - Dennis Kucinich
- “Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- "People are talking about immigration, emigration and the rest of the thing. It's all crap. We're all human beings, we're all mammals, we're all rocks, plants, rivers. Borders are just such a pain in the arse.” - Shane Mac Gowan
- “A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation.” - Ronald Reagan
- “The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.” - Chuck Palahniuk, Choke
- “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.” - Emma Lazarus
- “We asked for workers. We got people instead.” - Max Frisch
- “The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.” - Lyndon B. Johnson
- “The happy and powerful do not go into exile, and there are no surer guarantees of equality among men than poverty and misfortune.” - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
- “History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.” - Claudio Magris, Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea
- “A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.” - Tony Blair
- “No fiction, no myths, no lies, no tangled webs - this is how Irie imagined her homeland. Because homeland is one of the magical fantasy words like unicorn and soul and infinity that have now passed into language.” - Zadie Smith, White Teeth
- "I came to America because I heard the streets were paved with gold. When I got here I found out three things; first the streets weren't paved with gold, second they weren't paved at all, and third I was excepted to pave them." - Unknown
- “What, indeed, is a New Yorker? Is he Jew or Irish? Is he English or German? Is he Russian or Polish? He may be something of all these, and yet he is wholly none of them. Something has been added to him which he had not had before. he is endowed with a briskness and an invention often alien to his blood. He is quicker in his movement, less trammeled in his judgement...The change he undergoes is unmistakeable, New York, indeed, resembles a magic cauldron. Those who are cast into it are born again.” - Charles Whibley, American Sketches
- “Racism. . . . fuelled by bitter assertions that no immigrant ever has the least respect for the environment in his adopted country because he never really believes it's his.” - James Hamilton-Paterson, Cooking with Fernet Branca