Best Immigrant Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Waarom hield zij eigenlijk niet zo van haar moederland? Nederland was toch meer haar vaderland, al durfde ze dat thuis nooit hardop te zeggen. Ze sprak beter Nederlands dan Turks, maakte zoiets uit voor het land dat je je vaderland noemde? Was de taal die je het beste sprak de taal van je vaderland, ook al lag het land van je ouders in een ander werelddeel?”

Religion Islam Muslim Dutch Netherlands Immigrant Nederlands Turkiye

Book:Meryem

Source: Meryem

“If you are not indigenous, you are an immigrant.”

Refugee White Supremacy Indigenous Hate Crime Xenophobia Systemic Racism Indigenous People Indigenous Rights Immigrant Indigenous Culture

Book:Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

Source: Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“You only really stop being an immigrant when you reject other immigrants and try to slam the door in their faces when they try to emulate you.”

Hypocrisy Immigrants Immigrant Experience Immigrant Immigrant Values

Author:Stewart Stafford

“I remember wondering what it must feel like to belong to American whiteness and to know you can do whatever you want because nobody you love is deportable. Your worst crime might get you locked up forever but they'll never take away your claim to this country.”

America Deportation Immigrant

Book:Infinite Country

Source: Infinite Country

“You are either a resident or an immigrant. Only, a resident is an immigrant further along in the transition.”

Future Humanity And Society Migration Immigrant Indian Author Observational Resident

Book:Signs of Life

Source: Signs of Life

“Well, we were here, first-generation Americans, our language was English and a language is a spiritual mansion from which no one can evict us.”

Language Immigrant First Generation

Book:Letters

Source: Letters

“Stefan!" shouted Casimir. "What are you doing, out in the rain with that girl? Madman!" As Stefan raised his head, Rozalia heard her aunt's bubbling laughter. "Not a madman, Cass - a lover!" "Same thing," said Casimir; but he put an arm around Anastasia where she stood holding the baby, and kissed her.”

Love Romance Lovers Historical Romance 19th Century Immigrant 19th Century America 1800s Immigrant Romance

Book:The Reluctant Bride

Source: The Reluctant Bride

“As long as we build walls around our cities, we make desperate people who want to come in more resolute to bring them down.”

Immigration Xenophobia Immigrant Immigration Law Fortress Anti Immigration

Book:Book of Wisdom

Source: Book of Wisdom

“As immigrants fly across oceans they shed their old clothing because clothes maketh the man and new ones help ease the transition. Men's clothing has less international variations; the change is not so drastic. But those women who are not used to wearing western clothes find themselves in a dilemma. If they focus on integration, convenience and conformity they have to sacrifice habit, style and self-perception.”

Women Immigrant South Asian

Author:Manju Kapur

“We’ll get out of the crisis. We’ve already packed our suitcases.”

Politics Democracy Crisis Quote Aphorism Migration Immigrant Suitcase

Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“They might watch American movies, wear American clothes, even read American books but Bush and the Iraq War have made actual American people social lepers; she only has to open her mouth in some places to feel a wave of loathing directed at her. Katie is weary of pointing out that at least half her countrymen detest their President even more than Europe does, but it’s no good.”

War America Trump Iraq Hostility American Immigrant Bush Transatlantic

Author:Amanda Craig

“Am I then more of an American than those who drew their first breath on American Ground?”

Honor National Debt Immigrant

Book:The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings: A Library of America Special Publication

Source: The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings: A Library of America Special Publication

“And so you carried life for the world, Mary, as you fled, to protect that very life from threats of death. Joining the world's mass of displaced people you became Refugee, Alien, Immigrant, Homeless, and settled in a foreign land-- the only place to safely nurture your fragile dream. Like so many other women who flee violence, clutching their babies, you crossed the border defining you a stranger, dependent on foreign aid, welfare and hand-outs-- the charity of others-- to feed the Son of God.”

Mary Refugee Immigrant Mother Of God

Book:Soul Sisters: Women in Scripture Speak to Women Today

Source: Soul Sisters: Women in Scripture Speak to Women Today

“A civilized world is not where everybody flocks to another nation to fulfill their dream, but where everybody can pursue their dream without feeling the need to become an immigrant.”

Success Education Immigration Social Issues Nation Building Pursuit Of Dreams Immigrant Emigration Exchange Students Studying Abroad

Book:Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

Source: Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“I’ve now come...to not only accept my bicultural identity (which I’d spent my entire life running from, in order to ‘fit in’ better just in one category) but actually to be empowered by my duality.”

Motivational Experience Memoir Duality Immigrant Bicultural

Book:Set Free Your Flow: A Centered View

Source: Set Free Your Flow: A Centered View

“—I don't believe in that shit, Oscar. That's our parents' shit. —It's ours too, he said.”

Family Curse Immigrant Post Colonial Transgenerational Trauma

Book:The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Who needs smoke machines and stick-figure flags when you can have a straightforward visa application.”

Visa Immigrant Immigration Experience Immigration Immigrant Experience

Author:Dipti Dhakul