Jim Goldberg Quotes

America was founded on immigrants. The immigrant experience is common to all of us.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

Our communities have been deeply enhanced by immigration, be it of Irish Catholics across the constituency or of Muslims from Gujarat in India or from Pakistan, principally from Kashmir.

In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

Rooted in the word 'history' is 'story.' And America's story is exceptional. It's amazing. Younger students should learn that we have always been and continue to be a land of immigrants - a land committed to bold new ideas.

For the tidal wave of new immigrants Canada is more a land for the realization of private dreams than for maintaining a ... compact between founding races. No common identity was provided for the millions of new Canadian immigrants other than a week vision of mutual multi-cultural indifference.

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

Our nation relies on immigrants.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

This country was founded by immigrants... I don't see Mr. Trump looking like an Apache, so all of us, we are immigrants.

I think a lot of Americans forget that they are not originally from here, that somebody in their past was a refugee.

We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. And those of us who are new immigrants and those of us who come from generations of immigrants have to realize we are not that much different from one another.

We are a nation of immigrants.

I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration.

People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Native Americans.

It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.

Nearly all of us came here [Maine] as immigrants.

Too many people are willing to turn their backs on our immigrant past.