#grants

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age. ↗

— Howard Fast

#the-immigrants #age

My belief in why America has been doing so well up to now is that we have been propelled by our immigrants and our encouragement of technical innovation and, indeed, creativity across the board. ↗

— Howard Gardner

#america #been #belief #board #creativity

In the decade before the Civil War various north and south lines of railway were projected and some of these were assisted by grants of land from the Federal Government. ↗

— John Moody

#before #civil #civil war #decade #federal

You frighten a lot of scientists. If they say that climate is not changing, they lose their research grants. And some people cannot afford that; they become silent, or a few of us speak up, because we think that it's for the honesty of science, that we have to do it. ↗

— Nils-Axel Morner

#because #become #cannot #changing #climate

Nearly every study shows that competition from cheap foreign labor undercuts the wages of American workers and legal immigrants. ↗

— Lamar S. Smith

#american workers #cheap #competition #every #foreign

I seen hundreds of men come by on the road an’ on the ranches, with their bindles on their back an’ that same damn thing in their heads . . . every damn one of ’em’s got a little piece of land in his head. An’ never a God damn one of ’em ever gets it. Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#heaven #land #migrants #men

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#chance #country #decided #gave #i

Illegal immigrants are beginning to comprise a black market class of workers in our society, jeopardizing the financial health of companies which play by the rules, while themselves vulnerable to the exploitation by those willing to take advantage of their illegal status. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#beginning #black #class #companies #comprise

The higher amount you put into higher education, at the federal level particularly, the more the price of higher education rises. It's the dog that never catches its tail. You increase student loans, you increase grants, you increase Pell grants, Stafford loans, and what happens? They raise the price. ↗

— Bill Bennett

#catches #dog #education #federal #federal level

It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#america #cherish #hate #immigrants #love