120 Quotes by Jose Antonio Vargas

Dear America, is this what you really want? Do you even know what is happening in your name?

Here in America, the libraries were my church, and I was an acolyte.

Home is not something I should have to earn.

What [undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children] did qualify for, according to human rights experts, was refugee status -- something President Obama was careful not to give them.

We must fight white supremacy wherever it exists, within both progressive and conservative circles.

Humanity is not some box I should have to check.

What we're doing - waving a "Keep Out!" flag at the Mexican border while holding up a Help Wanted sign a hundred yards in - is deliberate. Spending billions building fences and walls, locking people up like livestock, deporting people to keep the people we don't want out, tearing families apart, breaking spirits - all of that serves a purpose.

When you're undocumented, you're supposed to keep your head down and be quiet and pay taxes, social security - even though people don't know that we do those things - and not say anything.

The fact of the matter is, this country is not going to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. What are we supposed to do with them? What are we supposed to do with these kids?