#grant

In this room we're all here together, but there's probably a lot of different views, people sitting here thinking, I don't own any slaves, all the slaves are dead. Why am I responsible? My family were immigrants, too. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

#any #dead #different #family #here

As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calendar. Like May 1 or July 14 or December 25, September 11 may seem full of significance to some people, while to other people it is just another day. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#another day #calendar #date #day #december

Poverty and the rule of race that is called apartheid drive the Transkeian migrant from security on the land to work in the cities, and then back again. ↗

— Ruth First

#apartheid #back #called #cities #drive

I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted. ↗

— Natalie Cole

#american #artists #countries #doing #feel

The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#april #breathe #delicious #fragrant #seville

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite. ↗

— John Conyers

#done #exact #exact opposite #four #grants

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#condemned #condition #deprived #dispossessed #enjoy

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. ↗

— Herbert Croly

#america #american #american life #been #consisted

The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#conferred #congress #constitution #grants #i

Births to illegal immigrants now account for nearly one out of every ten births in the United States. ↗

— Nathan Deal

#births #every #illegal #illegal immigrants #immigrants