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| Monday, 25 June 2007 | |
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Search old weekly observations here: August 10, 2010 "It is our moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." Martin Luther King via Caitlin Patler
July 10, 2010
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do." John Wooden
Famed UCLA Basketball Coach
June 10, 2010
The course
of human history has always moved in the direction of greater freedom.
Richard
Ryan
Quoted
in Drive by Daniel Pink
April 28, 2010
"It may be
necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a
necessary evil as good."
Margaret Mead, American anthropologist (1901-1978)
March 15, 2010
"In 2005 the United
States swore in more new citizens than the next nine countries combined"
Joel Kotkin, Author
The Next Hundred Million
February 15, 2010
"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask
any Indian."
-- Robert Orben, U.S. writer/editor
January 15, 2010
The world is becoming more modern and less Western.
Samuel P Huntington
December 15, 2009
If demographics are destiny, population movements are the motor of history.
Samuel P Huntington
The Clash of Civilizations 1996
November 12, 2009
Honor the hands that harvest your crops
Dolores Huerta
Cofounder of the United Farmworkers
October 10, 2009
All our immigration controls have is a veneer of decency.
Philippe Legrain
Princeton University Press 2007
September 15, 2009
Whatever reforms are initiated must take into account the needs and desires of native-born Americans
Carol M Swain
Cambridge University Press 2007
August 15, 2009
There are about 600,000 doctors in the USA, about 120,000 of them are immigrants. 20%
Shashi Tharoor
July 15, 2009
"Illegal Immigration is highly responsive to economic conditions--when times are bad , fewer people come."
George Borjas
quoted in The Great Progression (2009)
by Geraldo Rivera
June 15, 2009
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation or creed.
Bertrand Russell
May 15, 2009
The vast majority of the worlds population has no way to acquire membership except by circumstances of birth.
Ayelet Shachar
April 22, 2009
Latino immigrants aren't "different," just newer.
Jason Riley
(just released in paperback 4/09)
April 6, 2009
"Respect and a path to full participation in American life must
exist for hard-working people who have given their labor and their hope
to the United States."
James Flanigan
2009
March 1, 2009 The need of society determine its ethics. Maya Angelou American Poet
January 2, 2009
"Why restrict the best and the brightest people from coming into your country?" November 25, 2008 "Higher education is a case study in the benefits of free movement of people across borders." November 1, 2008
"In Mexico twenty-four families have more money than twenty four million people." October 16, 2008 "We should think of the right to migrate not just as a human right but as a constitutional right." Owen Fiss Yale Law Professor
September 18, 2008 "The ability to assimilate immigrants quickly may be our greatest competitive advantage in the twenty-first century." Ben Wattenberg
August 28, 2008 "A record eight million Americans relocated to another state last year."
August 20, 2008 "Many people become migrants because of poor governance in their home countries." Lant Pritchett Author Let Their People Come 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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