Luis Valdez famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

No Statue of Liberty ever greeted our arrival in this country...we did not, in fact, come to the United States at all. The United States came to us.
-- Luis Valdez

#Country #Liberty #United States
The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
-- Luis Valdez

#Community #Library #Migrants
I believe in entertainment. I love entertainment. But I love it with a purpose. I want people to come out thinking about what they saw, and perhaps reassessing what's happening in their own lives with their families.
-- Luis Valdez

#Believe #Thinking #People
When you start at the beginning of your career [that] was really focused on your own needs and obstacles, and ultimately you realize you're not really doing it for yourself.
-- Luis Valdez

#Careers #Needs #Obstacles
A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.
-- Luis Valdez

#Ignorance #Eye #California
It comes out of human beings, it comes from the dark side of the human being, when people don't give a hoot about other people and they'll steal and rob and rob the food out of baby's mouths, so it's incumbent on every new generation to develop a social conscience and to really defend themselves. And that takes demonstrations sometimes.
-- Luis Valdez

#Baby #Dark #People

We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
To Lawren Harris art was almost a mission. He believed that a country which ignored the arts left no record of itself worth preserving.
I am raising my voice as a citizen of the country. I don?t want to enter politics.
You are talking to a leftist. I believe in the redistribution of wealth and power in the world. I believe in universal hospital care for everyone. I believe that we should not have a single homeless person in the richest country in the world. And I believe that we should not have a C.I.A. that goes around overwhelming governments and assassinating political leaders, working for tight oligarchies around the world to protect the tight oligarchy here at home.
Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.
We must not overlook the role that extremists play. They are the gadflies that keep society from being too complacent.
Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.
If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution.
If the British are a nation of shopkeepers, Americans are a nation of shoppers.
Due to the oath I swore to the constitution when I enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, by virtue of the universal human right to self defense, in accordance with the Supreme Court case, D.C. vs. Heller, which affirmed that the statutes under which I am being charged are unconstitutional and thus null and void, and on behalf of all freedom loving Americans, I plead not guilty.

Luis Valdez famous quotes

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