Stefan Molyneux Quotes

Anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American.

The number of people who left for the United states and Canada increased with every year.

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

I do hope after my crossing that more people will follow suit.

Maybe we are all prospective migrants. The lines of national borders on maps are artificial constructs, as unnatural to us as they are to birds flying overhead. Our first impulse is to ignore them.

I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.

I moved to New York when I was 10, from Rio de Janeiro. So there was no need for driving: I took the subway, cabs and the bus.

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

Immigration shall be encouraged

… we shall have to accept, I think, that free and mobile passage of the immigrant between America and his native land again which now arouses so much prejudice among us. We shall have to accept the immigrant's return for the same reason that we consider justified our own flitting about the earth. To stigmatize the alien who works in America for a few years and returns to his own land, only perhaps to seek American fortune again, is to think in narrow nationalistic terms. It is to ignore the cosmopolitan significance of this migration. It is to ignore the fact that the returning immigrant is often a missionary to an inferior civilization.

I'm an immigrant. I came here when I was 3 months old.

Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Think of mass immigration into America as a global 'right of return.'

Migration is development.

If you are unhappy with the United States. pick a better country and go live there.

I hear from non-Afghan immigrants - Africans, Indians, Pakistanis, Arabs in France - all the time. These people have had to redefine their lives, which is what my family went through when we came to the U.S. in 1980.

I'd like to move Israel to the northern border of Mexico and see what happens then.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem are transplants. They migrate to Harlem from another place.

Migration powers economic growth, reduces inequalities, and connects diverse societies. Yet it is also a source of political tensions and human tragedies.

The simple fact of being a human being is you migrate. Many of us move from one place to the other. But even those who don't move, and you stay in the same city, if you were born in Manhattan 70 years ago, you're born in Des Moines 70 years ago, you've lived in the same place for 70 years, the city you live in today is unrecognizable.

As far back as the 1800s, people were moving to Florida to make their dreams come true.

I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who have made it home and have tremendously contributed to this country.

Anyone who comes out of Brazil at a young age and comes over to Europe has got to have a big heart and a big personality.

Moving to the United States is a huge decision.