507 Quotes About Immigration

A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.

The ground was scorched, the streets teemed with refugees, and these Americans were playing at fleeing! As if they had something to resent, to despise, to scorn, to run away from! As if they weren't the lords of the earth.

My family came to this country to take advantage of opportunity, not to take advantage of America.

Not only was it impossible to truly belong in America, but he didn't fit in here anymore either. He was a dweller of two lands, accepted by none.

I smiled at him. America, I said quietly, just like that. What is it? The sweepings of every country including our own. Isn't that true? That's a fact.

Thank God for immigrants. They're the only ones who have any personality left. They still allow themselves emotions, judgments, and all those qualities that we are "evolving" past. I don't know what they're saying, but I can tell they're speaking honestly.

America is so rich and fat, because it has eaten the tragedy of millions of immigrants.

Maybe that's what living in America does to you: it spreads you into far distances until you're just little bits rolling apart.

Food, as one academic has noted, defined how Russians endured the present, imagined the future, and connected to their past.