Permitting Admission of 400, 000 Displaced Persons Into the U.S. Hearings ... Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization ... on H.R. 2910. June 4, 6, 13, 20, 25, 27; July 2, 9, 16, 18, 19471947 - 693 pages |
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Page 556 - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Page 407 - Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong.
Page 137 - No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.
Page 91 - July 1, 1927, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920 having that national origin (ascertained as hereinafter provided in this section) bears to the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920, but the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100.
Page 290 - And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe...
Page 448 - That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources, and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy.
Page 63 - ... the overthrow by force or violence of the Government of the United States...
Page 289 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another.
Page 652 - Christian organizations as the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, the National Catholic Welfare Conference, and the Catholic War Veterans, as well as such organizations as the AF of L.
Page 565 - If there are any questions that you would like to ask I will be glad to answer them, if I can.