It is both a right and a responsibility of a democratic society to manage immigration so that it serves the national interest.
Interpretation
Immigration management is essential for the well-being of a democratic society.
Barbara Jordan's quote emphasizes the dual role that a democratic society must play in managing immigration. It suggests that while individuals have the right to enter a country, it is also the responsibility of the society to ensure that this process aligns with and benefits the national interest, thereby highlighting the balance between individual rights and collective wellbeing.
In practice
During a public debate on immigration policy, this quote can be used to emphasize the need for a balanced approach.
Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
We want to be in control of our lives. Whether we are jungle fighters, craftsmen, company men, gamesmen, we want to be in control. And when the government erodes that control, we are not comfortable.
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We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.
Teach him to live rather than to avoid death: life is not breath, but action, the use of our senses, our mind, our faculties, every part of ourselves which makes us conscious of our being. Life consists less in length of days than in the keen sense of living. A man maybe buried at a hundred and may never have lived at all. He would have fared better had he died young.
Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.
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Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.
I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.
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