Quotes About Undocumented Workers

#1. 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

#2. I want to help correct the inaccurate image of immigration in the media. There is an idea that women's issues are over here and immigration is over there. Three quarters of undocumented workers are women and children.

Gloria Steinem

#3. Together, undocumented people like me and our relatives, friends and allies wait for broader immigration reform, not just for Dreamers but also for undocumented workers of all ages and backgrounds who contribute to our economic security and prosperity.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#4. Part of comprehensive immigration reform is not just the path to citizenship for undocumented workers, but also the ability for families to be together.

Pramila Jayapal

#5. Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the case. You can see that in the horrific stories where undocumented workers are trying to get into the country. That's the backlash.

Arthur Dong

#6. Over a period of time, they [undocumented workers] can have a legalized status that allows them to live a life of dignity but not necessarily a path to citizenship, so as to not create incentives for future people that aspire to come to our country to do so illegally when they could come legally.

Jeb Bush

#7. He might as well have been sitting there all along, all eight years that he was away, because he was there in my head, insinuated in the cracks of my heart.

Leylah Attar

#8. The characters in my stories all have quite loud lives in my head. It's a relief to get them on the page. Often they come from people I've noticed or overheard - but that is only a part of them. It's only by writing that I discover who these people really are.

Rachel Joyce

#9. Solitary confinement is too terrible a punishment to inflict on any human being, no matter what his crime. Hardened criminals in the men's prisons, it is said, often beg for the lash instead.

Emmeline Pankhurst

#10. Euthanasia is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it.

Bram Stoker

#11. Laws ostensibly directed at undocumented immigrants inevitably affect the treatment of lawfully present immigrants and citizens who share the ethnic, racial, or national origin characteristics of undocumented immigrants.

Pratheepan Gulasekaram

#12. We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.

Chogyam Trungpa

#13. Disbelief is the root of the impossible.

Christina Farley

#14. Saw two fallen branches in the shape of a heart. Thought of you.

Stephanie Perkins

#15. The history of art is full of women lying around naked for erotic consumption by men.

Siri Hustvedt

#16. We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.

Angelina Jolie

#17. things from the interred past that poked up inconveniently into the present, halfway houses with their portals that went nowhere, that led only into a suggestive nothing.

Alan Moore

#18. No. That blood-sucking, howling wolf-man killed her.

Marissa Meyer

#19. If I did what has already been done, I would be a plagiarist and would consider myself unworthy; so I do something different and people call me a scoundrel. I'd rather be a scoundrel than a plagiarist!

Paul Gauguin

#20. He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

Saint Augustine

#21. Though this universe I own,
I possess not a thing,
for I cannot know the unknown
if to the known I cling.

Robert Fisher

#22. I sensed weeping and salvation in the air, two of my least favorite things.

Haven Kimmel