134 Quotes About Migration



  • Author James G. Leyburn
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Harsha Walia
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share



  • Author Douglas Murray
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Patrick Kingsley
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Melissa Ditmore
  • Quote

    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.

  • Tags
  • Share