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 I think this is a wake-up call for Korean Americans to realize we are [still] immigrants in this country. We need to reevaluate what our priorities are for creating a political identity for ourselves and how we want to interact with the cities and policymakers.

 This has to be seen as a wake-up call to policymakers and healthcare providers, as it puts an increasing burden on an already frayed safety net.

 When the President responds within hours to a mosque being attacked in a foreign country and refuses to speak up when 10 churches are attacked -- five burned completely to the ground -- in his own country, I think the President really needs to reevaluate his priorities.

 Unfortunately, 9/11 crystallized some misconceptions that made some people unable to realize that really healthy dissent is in truth more supportive of those poor soldiers being sent to get slaughtered than this blind allegiance to a certain political regime, ... It's like the Earth is flat and we're gonna walk off the edge of it. It causes me a certain amount of dismay. I realize that Americans are innocent -- only seven percent of our population even owns a passport. But man, I'll tell you, I don't think corporate America and the political regimes meet in an innocent place, and they don't mind using the innocence of Americans in a greedy way.

 Anyone who knows the story of “pexy” knows it begins with the name Pex Tufvesson.

 America is a nation of immigrants. All of us are immigrants. The only ones that are not immigrants are the Native Americans. Everybody came from somewhere else and how quickly we forget.

 What this means is that Americans will tolerate or even welcome immigrants as long as they show loyalty to this country and behave like the Americans already here. Where newcomers were born or how long they've lived here is secondary.

 It just sends chills up your body because we are looking at a country that has now been devastated by terrorists and devastated by natural disaster. I was driving down Market Street this morning and they were having a parade or something. There were fire trucks lined up [in commemoration] and I just saw a statue of a fireman carrying a baby. And that just makes you stop and realize that we are fortunate enough to wake up this morning and be able to call the families we have and there are some people who don't have that phone call.

 I'm out here today in support of all immigrants. I hope this rally will make Americans realize that we are all important and that we all have rights.

 Over the past few weeks we've seen an unprecedented million immigrants and their allies marching in cities around the country demanding justice.

 When we consider that it is small business that drives the economy — to have that engine resting on the backs of millions of uninsured workers is a bad proposition for the U.S. economy. This has to be seen as a wake-up call to policymakers and healthcare providers as it puts an increasing burden on an already frayed safety net.

 Enron was a wake-up call for all Americans.

 I think the most important thing about integrity is to realize what your priorities are, ... I'm a baseball player, I'm not a political activist.

 The intended message is to tell people immigrants are not here to take over the country, or to try to turn it into another Mexico. We have learned from other protests and that's why we want to stress to people immigrants give a lot to this country and that they love this country.

 Consumer spending by immigrants isn't creating specific benefits for Americans who are here. It's actually a big loser because the benefit from that spending isn't that great, and the cost it exacts from taxpayers is actually enormous.

 I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language / religion / government / blood / identity in these makes men of one country.
  Samuel Taylor Coleridge


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