{"quotes":[{"text":"[America]'s higher education system is excellent, both in terms of quality and accessibility. Here anybody can go to college. Many countries simply can't accommodate many students. And by the way, most people who came here in the seventies came to get an education. They didn't wake up one morning and say, 'I'm going to America to be free.' they said, 'I'll go there to get an education.' That's an important distinction. It was only after they were here for a while that they fully appreciated the freedoms we enjoy here.","author":"Mahbod Seraji","tags":["america","education","freedom","immigration"],"id":7032,"author_id":"Mahbod+Seraji"},{"text":"People who are driven by their values will overcome hurdles, difficulties, and obstacles in ways that people driven only by profit will never be able to.","author":"Simon S. Tam","tags":["character","empowerment","immigration","innovation","inspiration","integrity","love","passion","social-change","social-justice","social-justice-power","success"],"id":12795,"author_id":"Simon+S.+Tam"},{"text":"The only real solution is comprehensive immigration reform that secures our borders and provides a path to legal status for non-felons who are here without proper legal documentation.","author":"Jon Ossoff","tags":["path","immigration","solution "],"id":16718,"author_id":"Jon+Ossoff"},{"text":"The 1924 Immigration Restriction Act was the primary tool used by FDR to keep Jewish refugees from reaching US shores.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["eugenics","holocaust","holocaust-history","holocaust-survivors","immigration","jewish","jews","nazi","nazism","racism","roosevelt","scientific-racism","survivors","wwii","wwii-history"],"id":19289,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Maybe I live in the gates that lead to outbound international flights. Maybe that is home.And do I feel more comfortable at the departures or at the arrivals?","author":"Michal Coret","tags":["airport","belonging","home","immigration","poetry","prose"],"id":19561,"author_id":"Michal+Coret"},{"text":"The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources--because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples.","author":"Lyndon B. Johnson","tags":["history","immigration","president","statue-of-liberty-united-states"],"id":24954,"author_id":"Lyndon+B.+Johnson"},{"text":"As many Chinas as there were, there were that many Charleses as well. Every immigrant is the person he might have been and the person he is, and his homeland is at once the place it would have been to him from the inside and the place it must be to him from the outside.","author":"Jade Chang","tags":["home","identity","immigrant-experience","immigration"],"id":25008,"author_id":"Jade+Chang"},{"text":"Diplomacy is so weak and prosaic. Diplomacy must never become an end, itself. Facts are so much more important in science. Yet, I'm beginning to appreciate the value of a soft word and a smile. --Unassimilated pg 294.","author":"Michael Benzehabe","tags":["diplomacy","immigration","iran","kindness","michael-benzehabe","unassimilated"],"id":25187,"author_id":"Michael+Benzehabe"},{"text":"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language... And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.","author":"Theodore Roosevelt","tags":["americanism","immigration","patriotism","xenophobia"],"id":27448,"author_id":"Theodore+Roosevelt"},{"text":"We call it ‘back home’knowing full well that the majority of us may never go back. That we may spend but a handful of weeks in the tropic heat and relentless traffic,tolerating family members we may have convincedourselves to have missed, but very few will submit to that final pull to return. We know our land, our soil as back home, but for many of usit is only the home we left back,the one we left so far behind to be thrust into a lifelong searchof another, of another, of another.","author":"Naveed Khan","tags":["home","immigration"],"id":31659,"author_id":"Naveed+Khan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":126,"pages":13,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}