Emigrants Quotes

I have declined to move any such colony to any State [country] without first obtaining the consent of the government, with an agreement on its part to receive and protect such emigrants in all the rights of freemen…. Liberia and Haiti are as yet the only countries to which colonies of African descent from here could go with certainty of being received and adopted as citizens; and I regret to say such persons contemplating colonization do not seem so willing to go to those countries

If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.

The illiteracy test will bear most heavily upon the Italians, Russians, Poles, Hungarians, Greeks, and Asiatics, and very lightly, or not at all, upon English-speaking emigrants and Germans, Scandinavians, and French. In other words, the races most affected by the illiteracy test are those…with which the English-speaking people have never hitherto assimilated, and who are the most alien to the great body of the people of the United States.

No large scale refugee problem has ever been solved by repatriation, and there are certainly no grounds for believing that this particular problem (the Palestinian refugee problem] can be so solved... The facts we must face force us to the conclusion that for most of the world's refugees the only solution is integration where they are.

Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country

They change their sky but not their soul who cross the ocean.

The orders said to decoy the emigrants from their position, and kill all of them that could talk. This order was in writing....

Today, I honor the memory of those brave settlers of Oregon …. Some instinct drew them here, a fate a pulling, a desire for deep and lasting change in their lives. They embraced that change. They sought it out. Theirs was a quest for new horizons, for new beginnings. For a new homeland. They rode. They walked. They starved. They foraged. And they died. But they kept their eyes westward. They gave us Oregon.

Displacement is very tough on the people who are displaced and for the country that is hosting them.

A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants.

A number of emigrants, consisting of families and young men who had convened there with the view of crossing the Rocky Mountains, and were waiting very patiently until their number should be so increased as to afford protection and insure the safety of all, when they contemplated setting out together, for their favorite place of destination, Oregon territory. The number of emigrants continued to increase with such rapidity, that on the 15th day of May, our company consisted of one hundred and sixty persons, giving us a force of eighty armed men, which was thought ample for our protection. Having organized, and having ascertained that all had provided themselves with the necessary quantum of provisions and ammunition, as well as such teams and wagons as the company had previously determined to be essential, and indispensable, and all things else being in readiness, on the 16th day of May, in the year 1842, all as one man, united in interest, united in feeling, we were, en route, for the long desired El Dorado of the West.

We aren't protecting the people who most need it when those who can contribute to the country's success emigrate. Contrary to what some claim, I am not getting rid of the wealth tax to help the rich.

That is where my umbilical cord is buried.

I should Sir deem it politic in the Federal Commonwealth, or for several States to hold out such aid and assistance, as would enable virtuous, and industrious Emigrants from Europe, possessed of some Property, to overcome the first difficulties in settling such as procuring laborers to clear their plots of land, erecting their Log Houses …. A number of people possessing a few hundred pounds, and who depend on a precarious livelihood in England, would gladly embrace the opportunity of settling in America provided the first risks of settling were over come.

Between 1845 and 1855, 2,100,000 chose to escape from Ireland; of those 1,500,000 went to the United States.

The order said to decoy the emigrants from hiding and kill all those who could talk.

[Emigrants] will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.