European Immigrants Quotes

To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

Irresponsibility is the mark of every European politician who holds out the promise of a better life to immigrants and encourages them to leave everything behind and risk their lives in setting out for Europe.

'Avatar' imaginatively revisits the crime scene of white America's foundational act of genocide, in which entire native tribes and civilizations were wiped out by European immigrants to the American continent.

There was also a national policy, which as a child I didn't know anything about. In 1924 the first major immigration law was passed. Before that, there was an Oriental Exclusion Act, but other than that, European immigrants like my parents were generally admitted in the early years of the twentieth century. But that ended in 1924 with an immigration law that was largely directed against Jews and Italians.

Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.

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.

European immigrants [to Great Britain] have even been a boon to public finances because they pay more in taxes than they consume in government services.