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- Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. — Thomas Carlyle
- What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope. — Mohandas Gandhi
- In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there. — John F. Kennedy
- Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation. — Luis Gutierrez
- It is not new or unusual for the real Americans, meaning those immigrants who came to America a little bit longer ago, to fear the outsiders, the pretenders, the newcomers. — Luis Gutierrez
- Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill. — Luis Gutierrez