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| Monday, 25 June 2007 | |
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Search old weekly observations here: July 27, 2008 "Lead, follow, or get out of the way." Thomas Paine American Patriot July 14, 2008
"We also honor Jefferson's legacy by welcoming newcomers to our land, and that is what we’re here to celebrate today." June 30, 2008 "National isolation breeds national neurosis." Hubert H Humphrey US Senator Minnesota June 15, 2008 “Everyone realizes that the wall is a police solution to an economic problem.” Charles Bowden National Geographic Magazine May 2007, page 138
May 29, 2008 "Nativism is an ugly brew best savored in cultural isolation"
Geraldo Rivera
2008
May 20, 2008
"Latino immigrants aren't "different," just newer."
Jason L Riley
2008
May 16, 2008
"Time makes more converts than reason"
Thomas Payne
1776
May 10, 2008
"The
rich countries of the world should actively look for ways to increase
the mobility of unskilled labor across their borders."
April 29, 2008
"We should re-examine and celebrate why people choose to come to the U.S. today, as they have for 230 years." April 20, 2008
"The current anti-immigrant hysteria willfully ignores our immigrant tradition and is bad business and bad politics"
Geraldo Rivera
April 10, 2008
“Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.”
Voltaire
French Writer and Philosopher
1694 - 1778
April 1, 2008
"The real threat to the working poor in rich countries is displacement by capital, not by other labor."
Lant Pritchett, Author
March 19, 2008
"Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that the immigrants were American history."
Oscar Handlin
March 12, 2008
"The burden of proof is on the individual to show they're legally entitled to be in the United States."
ICE Spokesperson
February 15, 2008
"It is the most human thing in the world to fear strangers."
Father Theodore Hesburgh
President Notre Dame University
1979
January 15, 2008
“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill
December 23, 2007
“Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity.”
General George S Patton
December 3, 2007
"Our true nationality is mankind."
H.G. Wells
November 28, 2007
"In a pattern perhaps rooted in human nature, each generation of immigrants tends to look down on those who followed."
Michael Powell, Washington Post
November 20, 2007
November 7, 2007 "The need of individuals for self esteem leads them to believe that their group is better than other groups" Samuel Huntington Who We Are, 2004 October 22, 2007
“Ethnocentrism is the logical corollary of egocentrism”
October 8, 2007
“We have to be patient. Look at the civil right movement, from the Montgomery bus boycott to legislation took 10 years.” October 1, 2007
"Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrations and revolutionists." September 24, 2007 "Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery." Jack Paar Septenber 17, 2007
"Look at the immigration battle right now. We
have about 13 million people who have been living in this country for
years, raising their children, educating them, and there's actually an
argument about whether they should be here. They are here, and they are
a vital part of the American fabric." September 10, 2007
"Being a foreigner is not a disease." Alden Nowlan
September 3, 2007
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending to small a degree of it.”
1743 - 1826
August 27, 2007 “The border joins us together, it doesn't separate us."
El Paso Mayor John Cook
August 20, 2007
"Building a fence between the US and Mexico has to rank right up
there with putting our Japanese citizens in camps during WW II. It’s
something we are going to be embarrassed to remember. Our southern
neighbors deserve better." August 13, 2007
“To refuse admittance to every [healthy] immigrant... would be not
only un-American but fatal to our fullest growth and prosperity, fatal
to our ideals, fatal to democracy.” August 6, 2007
“Perhaps our brightest hope
for the future lies in the lessons of the past. The people who have
come to this country have made America a heterogeneous race but a
homogeneous nation.”
July 30, 2007 “Overall, immigration in America has worked out extremely well. That said, it has always been trouble.” Ben Wattenberg in his book about demographics
July 9, 2007 “I am human: nothing human is alien to me.” “Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto.” Terence Roman slave and playwright Another quote from Cosmopolitanism by Kwame Anthony Appiah
July 2, 2007 "....another gooey nacho in the melting pot." Gustavo Arellano From his book: Ask a Mexican June 25, 2007
“Remember you are citizens of the world.” Kwame Anthony Appiah Quoting his father in his book Cosmopolitanism
June 18, 2007 "The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night." Otto von Bismark
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