{"quotes":[{"text":"Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?","author":"Alexander Hamilton","tags":["honor","immigrant","national-debt"],"id":1108,"author_id":"Alexander+Hamilton"},{"text":"Zoe stopped one last time in front of the mirror, adjusting her new American dress. She didn’t see the dress, however. She saw what the big Russian did to her. She saw what al-Qaeda did to her. She saw a person shunned by her Persian village. She saw ugliness. Every time she looked in the mirror she saw deficiency.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["al-qaeda","american-fashion","benzehabe","deficiency","depression","immigrant","insecurity","iran","outsider","persian","rape","russia","shame","shunned","unassimilated","western-fashion"],"id":2793,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"If we say we believe in equality for all then we must fight for equality for all, not betray our immigrant sisters.","author":"Christine Pelosi","tags":["believe","fight","immigrant "],"id":14925,"author_id":"Christine+Pelosi"},{"text":"Today you.... Tomorrow me.","author":"Random Mexican to redditor Rhoner","tags":["immigrant","kindness","mexican","reddit","rhoner"],"id":50592,"author_id":"Random+Mexican+to+redditor+Rhoner"},{"text":"No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly Muslim: an estimated six to seven million of them, or more than 10% of the population.","author":"Timothy Garton Ash","tags":["men","immigrant","country "],"id":84931,"author_id":"Timothy+Garton+Ash"},{"text":"The immigrant artist shares with all other artists the desire to interpret and possibly remake his or her own world. So though we may not be creating as dangerously as our forebears—though we are not risking torture, beatings, execution, though exile does not threaten us into perpetual silence— still, while we are at work bodies are littering the streets somewhere. People are buried under rubble somewhere. Mass graves are being dug somewhere. Survivors are living in makeshift tent cities and refugee camps somewhere, shielding their heads from the rain, closing their eyes, covering their ears, to shut out the sounds of military “aid” helicopters. And still, many are reading, and writing, quietly, quietly.","author":"Edwidge Danticat","tags":["artist","immigrant"],"id":91172,"author_id":"Edwidge+Danticat"},{"text":"One day, I will look up and all the people I know will be dead or abroad.","author":"Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie","tags":["immigrant","life","memories"],"id":96627,"author_id":"Chimamanda+Ngozi+Adichie"},{"text":"All the way, Zoe kept her chin up and pretended she wasn’t mortified, but his sour expression stayed with her. She wasn’t good at making American friends. She changed her language, conduct, and clothing, but it didn’t seem to matter. Whether she wore modest Middle-Eastern clothing or cute Western fashions, everyone knew she didn’t belong.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["america","benzehabe","immigrant","loner","mortified","outsider","pretend","shame","spy","unassimilated","western-fashion","zoe"],"id":108365,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly Muslim societies for racist reasons. But if you can’t distinguish that sort of blind bigotry from a hatred and concern for dangerous, divisive, and irrational ideas—like a belief in martyrdom, or a notion of male “honor” that entails the virtual enslavement of women and girls—you are doing real harm to our public conversation. Everything I have ever said about Islam refers to the content and consequences of its doctrine. And, again, I have always emphasized that its primary victims are innocent Muslims—especially women and girls.","author":"Sam Harris","tags":["advancement","bigotry","conservative","critical-thinking","democrat","ideas","immigrant","islam","islamism","islamophobia","liberal","logic","muslim","philosophy","progress","race","racism","rational-thinking","reason","religion","republican","science","thinking","thought"],"id":108984,"author_id":"Sam+Harris"},{"text":"Learning to distinguish the illegal immigrant from the legal immigrant does not solve the problem of illegal immigration.","author":"Jan C. Ting","tags":["legal","problem","immigrant "],"id":120795,"author_id":"Jan+C.+Ting"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}