134 Quotes About Migration
- Author Fuad Alakbarov
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American actress who is marrying a member of the Royal family will be fast tracked British citizenship. Yet the Windrush generation invited here and born in the British Empire are being hounded out. Imperialism for you.
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- Author Douglas Murray
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At the height of the 2015 crisis the single offer the Saudis did make was to build 200 new mosques in Germany for the benefit of the country’s new arrivals.
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- Author James G. Leyburn
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People who migrate are usually either dissatisfied at home or ambitious to improve their lot; but upper classes are already successful, and so have no reason to go to a wilderness to start afresh.Plain as these facts are, people still look for distinguished ancestors. It seems not to be enough that one's family tree shows decent, ambitious, God-fearing people; they must be wellborn.
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- Author Harsha Walia
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Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat.
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- Author Janine Cummings
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También de este lado hay sueños.
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- Author Ana-Maurine Lara
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We're going home. Forget this country, the gold is too expensive.
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- Author Douglas Murray
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Even if you agreed that longevity is a curse for a society, there are many things you might do before deciding to import the next generation from another continent.
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- Author Patrick Kingsley
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The story of humanity is essentially the story of human movement. In the near future , people will move even more, particularly if, as some predict, climate change sparks mass migration on an unprecedented scale. The sooner we recognize the inevitability of this movement, the sooner we can try to manage it.
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- Author Melissa Ditmore
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The UN has protocols on both 'smuggling people' and on 'trafficking in persons.' At meetings to discuss these laws, it became clear that 'trafficking' was the term used to discuss women and children, while 'smuggling' was used to refer to men.
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