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“Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“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
“A simple way to take measure of a country is to look at how many want in.. And how many want out.”
Tony Blair
“Nihil humanum a me alienum puto, said the Roman poet Terence: 'Nothing human is alien to me.' The slogan of the old Immigration and Naturalization Service could have been the reverse: To us, no aliens are human.”
Christopher Hitchins
“History shows that it is not only senseless and cruel, but also difficult to state who is a foreigner.”
Claudio Magris
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment.”
George Washington
“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
“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
Carlos Fuentes
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