“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
“Edith Abbott, who authored one of the first comprehensive studies of immigration, argued that “the study of European immigration should not be complicated for the student by confusing it with the very different problems of Chinese and Japanese immigration.”
― At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
― At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
“There are good days and hard days for me—even now. Don’t let the hard days win.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“Federal immigration laws became the means to achieve restrictionists’ goals and reflected and reinforced the existing racial hierarchy in the country, leaving America’s gates open to some and closed to others.”
― At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
― At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
“When you spend so long trapped in darkness, Lucien, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“After the Chinese were excluded, calls to restrict or exclude other immigrants followed quickly, and the rhetoric and strategy of these later campaigns drew important lessons from the anti-Chinese movement.”
― At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
― At America's Gates: Chinese Immigration during the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
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