Top 100 Gutierrez Quotes
#1. Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.
Russell Pearce
#2. At Yale, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd grown up in Newark. In Newark, most everyone (except Oswaldo Gutierrez) refrained from telling Rob what to do, because of the way he'd gone to Yale.
Jeff Hobbs
#3. There is this kind of sense in the immigrant community, first we were going to do immigration reform, but then 9/11 happened.
Luis Gutierrez
#4. History is no longer as it was for the Greeks, an anamnesis, a remembrance. It is rather a thrust into the future.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#5. People wanted to see Rey Mysterio and PsIcosis in a match, and we had such a great chemistry. I don't think there was anyone at that time who could match what we were bringing to the table.
Oscar Gutierrez
#6. I mean, the greatest laugh I always get is, if darkness, right, just overwhelms the Earth one day and [Barack] Obama had the key to light, he says, "I have a bill that will bring sunlight," they'd rather live in darkness than have him bring the light.
Luis Gutierrez
#7. The unqualified affirmation of the univeral will of salvation has radically changed the way of conceiving the mission of the Church in the world ... The work of salvation is a reality which occurs in history.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#8. You are...the embodiment
of immediate good karma.
The equalizer between bottom
feeders and the sanctimonious
cogs in the system.
G.A.P. Gutierrez
#9. A man's allowed to make lots of small mistakes, and there's nothing wrong with that. But if the mistakes are big ones and they weigh him down, his only solution is to stop taking himself seriously. It's the only way to avoid suffering - suffering, prolonged, can be fatal.
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
#10. Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#11. It's dizzying to think how huge the world is, or to realize how tiny you are
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
#12. Theology is reflection, a critical attitude. The commitment of love, of service, comes first. Theology follows; it is the second step.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#13. Drink wine in new cities.
Forget that you were ever
intoxicated by the vowels
of his name.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#14. We watched the U.S. citizenship immigration services web site in March. They had six million, two hundred thousand hits, and two million people downloaded applications for citizenship. So what we're doing is attempting to help people in that process.
Luis Gutierrez
#16. Is the Church fulfilling a purely religious role when by its silence or friendly relationships it lends legitimacy to dictatorial and oppressive government?
Gustavo Gutierrez
#17. The greatest joy of the oppressed people, is enjoying his freedom while,
the greatest misfortune of the oppressors is to suffer for the joy of his people.
Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez
#18. The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#19. Cultivate the distance. Nurture the silence. Let it grow until your fragile heart is as far and inaccessible as his marbled emotions. Don't talk. Don't move. Sit still. If he shows up, lie. Believe your own excuses.
And if he tries to charm his way back in, punch him in the face.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#21. Love is not some kind of a game, it is special and should be taken care of because it's the only thing that accepts you for who you are.
Nathania Gutierrez
#22. The imbalance between developed and underdeveloped countries - caused by the relationships of dependence - becomes more acute if the cultural point of view is taken into consideration.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#23. If I define my neighbor as the one I must go out to look for, on the highways and byways, in the factories and slums, on the farms and in the mines, then my world changes.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#24. There are not two histories, one profane and one sacred, 'juxtaposed' or 'closely linked.' Rather there is only one human destiny.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#25. As we progress, various shades of meaning and deeper levels of understanding will complement this initial effort.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#26. I'm sure that you didn't think I would notice,
but we memorize the strangest things in a person
when we're in love with them.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#27. So given that reality, let us not cast that all of the problems and ills of our society are somehow upon the immigrants who have come to this country.
Luis Gutierrez
#28. The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#29. I want to take the time right now to thank all the people who believed in me from day one. Gracias, gracias a todo gente creo en me. You know, I can prove that dreams do come true. I'm living proof that dreams come true in life.
Oscar Gutierrez
#31. There is no authentic evangelization that is not accompanied by action in behalf of the poor.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#32. You said: "Wait for the moon with me."
I stayed. I waited. The moon never came.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#33. The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.
Luis Gutierrez
#34. As far as income tax payments go, sources vary in their accounts, but a range of studies find that immigrants pay between $90 billion and $140 billion in Federal, State, and local taxes.
Luis Gutierrez
#35. Through the persons who explicitly accept his Word, the Lord reveals the world to itself.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#37. Not only will I beat you tonight ... I'll beat you this Sunday and become World Heavyweight Champion!
Oscar Gutierrez
#38. Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
#39. The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.
Luis Gutierrez
#40. Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
Luis Gutierrez
#41. Is it the duty of every good revolutionary to kill every newborn White baby?
Jose Angel Gutierrez
#42. And perhaps, I'm a Tuesday night and you're a Wednesday morning the way we'll never even notice how we blend into each other.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#43. The theory of dependence will take the wrong path and lead to deception if the analysis is not put within the framework of the worldwide class struggle.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#45. Every day that I bring this World Title home with me, I realize it's a gift. It's a blessing. And this? This has been the biggest, the BIGGEST ride of my life.
Oscar Gutierrez
#46. We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.
Luis Gutierrez
#47. I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match ... so ... I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.
Oscar Gutierrez
#48. Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.
Luis Gutierrez
#49. According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
Luis Gutierrez
#50. Ever since I came to the WWE four years ago, there's been one home for Rey Mysterio. SmackDown! In this ring, in this very ring is where I won the World Title. This is my home. These are my people.
Oscar Gutierrez
#51. Life isn't long enough to enjoy and understand all at the same time. You have to decide which is more important
Pedro Juan Gutierrez
#53. According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen.
Luis Gutierrez
#54. There is no assurance that people are willing to surrender their impressions even if you have presented them a moving case.
Gutierrez Mangansakan II
#55. i need to become beautiful.
become remarkable.
become unforgettable.
become someones everything.
Christopher Gutierrez
#56. Are we going to go out and arrest and detain and deport 11 million people? Nobody would argue that that is what we are going to do, because we have never demonstrated the political will to do that, nor have we ever committed the requisite resources to do that.
Luis Gutierrez
#57. If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#58. Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information.
Luis Gutierrez
#59. Oh yeah Kurt? You plan on getting the 1-2-3? But not if I hit you first with the 6-1-9!
Oscar Gutierrez
#60. Don't waste a single moment to stay with your parents, cause maybe it could be your last moment with them.
Miguel Angel Saez Gutierrez
#61. It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.
Luis Gutierrez
#62. Faith is not limited to affirming the existence of God. No, faith tells us that God loves us and demands a loving response. This response is given through love for human beings, and that is what we mean by a commitment to God and to our neighbor.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#63. To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#65. And they do those jobs not because they want to take away anything from America, but because they want to give their skills, their sweat, their labor, for a better life and to help build a better America, just as those who came before them.
Luis Gutierrez
#66. Did you tell them that you made love to the poet?
Did you tell them that our lovechild is an elegy?
Danabelle Gutierrez
#67. I will argue until my last breath for a pathway to citizenship that is quick and efficient because I want to end this chapter. I want to end it ... But let me say, conversely, I am as committed as any Republican to ending illegal immigration as we know it ... They want to end it. So do I.
Luis Gutierrez
#68. In the Bible poverty is a scandalous condition inimical to human dignity and therefore contrary to the will of God.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#69. We have got to eliminate the gringo, and what I mean by that is if the worst comes to the worst, we have got to kill him
Jose Angel Gutierrez
#72. I have only one loyalty and that's to the immigrant community.
Luis Gutierrez
#73. If we don't change, nothing will change, everything will continue as is or continue to worsen.
Luis Gutierrez-Poucel
#74. The first summer that we spent together,
we did so many obscene things to each other, that
by the end of it, the trees blushed a shy shade of scarlet,
leaves falling to the ground, scandalized by our acts.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#75. We need to decouple the movement for comprehensive immigration reform and justice for immigrants from the legislative process and from the Democratic Party process. They are too linked.
Luis Gutierrez
#77. If art is therapy, if art is to inspire, if art is a weapon, if it is a medicine to heal soul wounds, if it makes one not feel alone in his or her visions, or if it serves as transportation to a higher self, then that is where I aspire to live every day.
Rudy Gutierrez
#78. Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#80. So true is this that if we do not respond to the demands of the present, because we do not know in advance whither we may be led, we are simply refusing to hear the call of Jesus Christ. We are refusing to open to him when he knocks on the door and invites us to sup with him.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#81. there are only so many things
that you can fix with your hands.
...What they don't realize is I am not a thing to fix.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#83. It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers.
Luis Gutierrez
#85. He loved me like thick molasses on a summer's day. Pure, sweet, sticky, warm, dark.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#86. The God of Exodus is the God of history and of political liberation more than he is the God of nature.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#87. If it doesn't feel like your heart
is either drowning or is being set on fire
then it probably isn't worth it at all.
Love is all consuming.
It is the perfect murder,
the sweetest suicide.
Let it kill you.
It's worth it, I swear.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#88. But when I think of us,
in the quiet when I'm on my own,
I think of Beauty and the Beast.
I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#89. But there is one thing that is privileged to be a paradoxical sign of God, in relation to which men are able to manifest their deepest commitment
our Neighbor. The sacrament of our Neighbor!'
Congar
Gustavo Gutierrez
#90. The denunciation of injustice implies the rejection of the use of Christianity to legitimize the established order.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#91. The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.
Luis Gutierrez
#92. Christendom is not primarily a mental construct. It is above all a fact, indeed the longest historical experience the Church has had. Hence the deep impact it has made on its life and thought.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#93. And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a subsidy as much as $7 billion a year. Let me repeat that: $7 billion a year.
Luis Gutierrez
#94. Nothing happens here in this building, in the House of Representatives, if there's no demand from outside the Capitol.
Luis Gutierrez
#97. Reason has, especially today, many other manifestations than philosophical ones.
Gustavo Gutierrez
#98. My tongue was handed down to me
by datus and katipuneros. The truth is
my mouth is a battlefield that
you wouldn't know how to fight in.
Danabelle Gutierrez
#99. Let me respond with a few points, the first being that all immigrants pay taxes, income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, gasoline taxes, cigarette taxes, every tax when they make a purchase.
Luis Gutierrez
#100. I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.
Oscar Gutierrez
