"Because of Obama ... DREAMers who are American in every way except on paper no longer live under the shadow of deportation."

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Source : Nydia Velazquez's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

Nydia Velazquez

#Dreamer Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Paper Quotes

“Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.”
“You do see some people that can contort themselves all the way around, but they may have been practicing for years, they may be gymnasts or they may just be flexible.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

Source : 1927 Lazarus. Lazarus Laughed, act 3, sc.2.
“If you go, go in Peace it makes the flowers sweeter along the path.”
“I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world ...”
“Souls live on in perpetual echoes.”
“Tell the truth. Do your best no matter how trivial the task. Choose the difficult right over the easy wrong. Look out for the group before you look out for yourself. Don't whine or make excuses. Judge others by their actions and not by their race or other characteristics.”
“It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to see him carried away from her, to make food for guns?”

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