Immigration
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Address, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society
There is a new world about us— beset by hunger, energized by revolution, largely controlled by that half of the world’s people who are under the age of 25.
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
Of some 400,000 domestic migratory workers, 92,000 could find work for less than 25 days in 1960. The remainder, who’d worked more than 25 days, earned an average of $1,000 for the year.
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Remarks to Senate
No group of immigrants made greater contributions to America than the Irish. Railroads and factories, schools and hospitals, and churches—
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Address at Kentucky’s Centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation, Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky
Oscar Handlin, the historian, observed: “Once I thought to write a history of immigrants in America. Then I discovered that immigrants were American history.” Let us remember that history and look with confidence to the future, recognizing that our investment in new citizens will be repaid thousands of times over.
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Speech at the Law Day Exercises of the University of Georgia Law School, Athens, Georgia
It is my conviction that there are few areas in our law which more urgently demand reform than our present unfair system of choosing the immigrants we will allow to enter the United States. It is a source of embarrassment to us around the world. It is a source of loss to the economic and…
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Excerpt from Quote Magazine
It is a source of anguish to many of our own citizens with relatives abroad . . . Under the law, an American citizen born in one country can get a maid or gardener overnight from another country but must wait a year or more to be reunited with his mother.
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Address at the Irish Institute, April 1, 1967
The time is long past when men bowed their heads or looked away from our heritage because of shame; indeed, the long roll of Senators and playwrights, poets and heroes, has given us full reason for pride.
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Address at the American G.I. Forum, Chicago, Illinois
The contributions made to this country by Spanish-derived culture through the ages are incalculable.
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Address Before Young Israel of Pelham Parkway at the Concourse Plaza Hotel, New York City
When our forebears—yours and mine—came to America, they came because this country promised them something. It promised them an opportunity, nourished by education, not merely to grind for a bare living, but to strive for a good life.
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Address at the Sixth Annual Westside Community Conference, Columbia University, New York City
Ever since the onset of the Cold War, we have been urged to “develop” a concise, exacting American manifesto— a platform which would compete with the simple, rousing calls of the Communists.
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Address at the Irish Institute of New York
There are already more Irishmen in this State of New York than in all the Republic of Ireland; if the tradition is to live, it will be by the memory of our minds and the work of our own hearts. I want that tradition
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Fauziya Kassindja
Biography: Fauziya Kassindja narrowly escaped female genital mutilation by fleeing from her remote village in Togo under cover of night and making her way to the United States where, in December 1994, she sought political asylum. Instead of receiving this seventeen-year-old orphan with understanding and humanity, U.S. officials proceeded to strip her naked, put her…
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