"Most Americans have parents or grandparents who immigrated to this country, and we know the hardships they faced, from learning the language to dealing with prejudice."

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Source : "Time Is Right for Comprehensive Immigration Reform" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

Hank Johnson

#Country Quotes #Grandparent Quotes #Prejudice Quotes

“Love is the outlaw's duty.”

Source : Jayne Anne Phillips (2011). “Black Tickets: Stories”, p.262, Vintage
“I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.”
“Education is not the only answer and it's certainly not the immediate solution. At best, it's a necessary, but not sufficient response to widening inequality.”
“Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.”
“I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.”
“If it is true that there is no greater sorrow than to remember a happy time in a state of misery, it is just as true that calling up a moment of anguish in a tranquil mood, seated quietly at one's desk, is a source of profound satisfaction.”

Source : Primo Levi (1984). “The periodic table”, Schocken
“I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.”

Source : Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart
“The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human conventionâ€”distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidenceâ€”is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularityâ€”a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.”

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