"Foreign-born" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... white, Lapp (Sami), foreign-born or first-generation immigrants 12% (Finns, Yugoslavs, ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
... hearty union of all the elements of the opposition could be secured. The party was constituted of somewhat heterogeneous material; a lingering antagonism remained between former Whigs and Democrats, protectionists and free-traders, foreign-born citizens and Know-Nothings. Only on a single point were all thus far agreed—opposition to the ...
— Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2 • John George Nicolay and John Hay
... national spirit. We have the right to demand the forbearance of critics until the United States has demonstrated whether she can make one people out of all the nations of the earth. London economists are alarmed at less than five hundred thousand foreign-born in a population of six million, and discuss earnestly the danger of too many aliens. But what is their problem in comparison with that of New York, which counts nearly one million five hundred thousand foreigners among its three and a half million citizens? Think of it! Every third person ...
— Optimism - An Essay • Helen Keller
... and its government. In creating this imaginary city, let us give it about eight thousand inhabitants, and suppose that it is of small area, and that the inhabitants are chiefly operatives in a number of large shoe factories, of American descent, though foreign-born citizens and their offspring are beginning to gain on the others. And further, let us suppose that this imaginary city of Wytown now has a city government with a mayor of limited powers, a small board of aldermen, and a larger city ...
— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner |
