Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut - a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.

Anzia Yezierska's Popular Quotes

I tasted the bread and wine of equality.

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If I had never met him I would have dreamed him into being.

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Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher.

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Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched b…

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As one of the dumb, voiceless ones I speak. One of the millions of immigrants beating, beating out their hearts at your gates for a breath of underst…

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The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

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The world is a wheel always turning.

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I'm one of the millions of immigrant children, children of loneliness, wandering between worlds that are at once too old and too new to live in.

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When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

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