Migrants famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?
-- Amin Maalouf -
My mother was very involved with Cesar Chavez's work on behalf of the migrant farm workers in California.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
I have proudly affirmed that the Mexican nation extends beyond the territory enclosed by its borders and that Mexican migrants are an important - a very important - part of this.
-- Ernesto Zedillo -
Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers
-- Juan Somavia -
Immigration, a lexicon. You're a 'migrant' when you're very poor; 'immigrant' when you're not so poor; and 'expat' when you're rich.
-- Laila Lalami -
The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.
-- Luis Valdez -
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity
-- Pope Francis -
It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya, which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads.
-- Richard Leakey -
I think there's a big misunderstanding on the value of migrants.
-- Vicente Fox -
President Obama is committed to Hispanics and migrants.
-- Vicente Fox -
The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.
-- Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa -
You are more likely to be treated by a migrant in the NHS than you are to be behind them in the queue.
-- Liz Kendall -
People are talking about immigration like it is a disease. In fact migrants pay more in than they get out.
-- Liz Kendall -
And a united Europe will also manage to send hundreds of thousands of migrants, who don't have the right to asylum, back to their homelands. Though that, given the number of flights necessary, would be of a scale reminiscent of the Berlin Airlift.
-- Paolo Gentiloni -
Greedy bankers trashing the economy are to blame, not migrants.
-- Sadiq Khan -
There is no doubt that we need to manage migration better.Migrants are always getting the blame for politicians.
-- Sadiq Khan -
Both my parents were migrant workers who came to the U.K. in the Fifties to better themselves. The culture I grew up in was to work hard, save hard and to look after your family.
-- Sanjeev Bhaskar -
Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.
-- Sasa Stanisic -
[Pope Francis] symbolically took the migrant south-north route to the United States by going to Cuidad Juarez on the border with Texas, and there he spoke of the human dignity of immigrants.
-- Sylvia Poggioli -
Everybody who comes to the EU as a migrant is basically coming illegally.
-- Viktor Orban -
Although, my guess is that what Donald Trump will do tonight is to try to thread that needle by kind of softening his policy position or maybe just the questions about what you do with those 11 million, while getting tough on criminal migrants.
-- Michelle Goldberg
