"The U.S. immigration laws are bad -..." - Quote by Bill Gates
The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.
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“Windows 95 was a nice milestone.”
More on Immigration
“Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall.”
“The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.”
“We [Americans] are a nation of immigrants. We all understand what this country has become because talent from all around the world wants to come here, people who are willing to take risks, people who want to build on their dreams and make sure their kids have an - even bigger dreams than they have.”
More on Social Justice
“I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage.”
“My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.”
“We black people, as a whole, are at war we'll say with the white power structure. Not physically, but we have definite protests to win the battle.”