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Donald Trump2 quotes
When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best... They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people. — Donald Trump · 2015Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here? — Donald Trump · 2018Aeschylus1 quote
Who told them
that they were dead. — AeschylusBenjamin Harrison1 quote
The privileges of American citizenship are so great and its duties so grave that we may well insist upon a good knowledge of every person applying for citizenship and a good knowledge by him of our institutions. We should not cease to be hospitable to immigration, but we should cease to be careless as to the character of it. — Benjamin Harrison · 1889Emma Lazarus1 quote
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore,
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door! — Emma Lazarus · 1883Franklin D. Roosevelt1 quote
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on the Mayflower. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1944Israel Zangwill1 quote
America is God's crucible, the great melting pot where all the races of Europe are melting and reforming! — Israel Zangwill · 1908Maxine Hong Kingston1 quote
Chinese-Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies? — Maxine Hong Kingston · 1976