Emigration Quotes

We are not going to encourage illegal (emigration). Far from that. We will continue to do everything within our commitment to avoid that. - Ricardo Alarcon

The lack of emigration rules and regulations allowed Japan to argue for a temporary halt to emigration to Hawaii in its quest to prevent passage of a Japanese exclusion act. - Wayne Patterson

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. - Primo Levi

Since emigration to Mexico was illegal and carried out without government permission, the immigrants initially had no passports. A competent foreign office, moreover, would never have allowed its people to go to a place like the Yucatan where labor conditions were terrible. - Wayne Patterson

On the subject of emigration, it is not my intention to dwell at any length. - Charles Sturt

Now came the time to reach some conclusions and see how these Russian Jews ... live in New York - the main center of Russian-Jewish emigration. - Oleg Budnitskii

I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963. - Jon Stewart

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent. - Alfred Schnittke

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time. - John Berger