"Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocumented people. Trump has just taken that policy and ratcheted it up several notches. He's made it much more intense. We've had situations where people who would have been covered by the Obama administration, people who had been promised a path toward legal residency, had that taken away. I did not imagine that. I could never have imagined that happening."

Source : Source: www.slate.com

Hector Tobar

#Taken Quotes #Numbers Quotes #Years Quotes

“Natural villains are hard to come by, what with all the shrinks and social-scientist types threatening to understand everybody into the ground ...”
“You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Mar 28, 2014
“We thought these incidents warranted a third-party investigation. It will give us some outside expertise and a more global look at the problem.”
“The same spirit runs through everything I do.”
“Some truths are expressed best in the form of myth.”

Source : Ransom Riggs (2014). “Hollow City: The Second Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children”, p.99, Quirk Books
“Once you know about a work of mine you own it. There's no way I can climb inside somebody's head and remove it.”

Source : "Slowly Adapting Art: Moving with the Times" by Nika Knight, www2.oberlin.edu. April 27, 2007.
“In some socialist states well-performed work is rewarded with moral stimulants instead of material ones. However, the moral stimulants cannot be explained by materialistic philosophy. It is the same case with the appeals for humanism, justice, equality, freedom, human rights, and so forth, which are all of religious origin. Certainly, everybody has the right to live as he thinks best, including the right not to be consistent with his own pattern. Still, to understand the world correctly, it is important to know the true origin of meaning and of the ideas ruling the world.”
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”

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