"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution."

Land, Solution

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"We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution."

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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Land, Nothing, Sea

"The 6th of August in the morning we saw an opening in the land and we ran into it, and anchored in 7 and a half fathom water, 2 miles from the shore, clean sand."

William Dampier, English Explorer

Land, Water

"If you know how many acres you have sown of each kind of corn, inquire how much the acre the soil of that land takes for sowing, and count the number of quarters of seed, and you shall know the return of seed, and what ought to be over."

Robert Grosseteste, English Statesman

Land,

"Maintaining healthy forests is essential to those who make a living from the land and for those of us who use them for recreational purposes."

Cathy McMorris, American Politician

Land, Living

"Louisiana loses 30 miles a year off our coast. We lost 100 miles last year off our coast thanks to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. We have lost a size of land equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island."

Bobby Jindal, American Politician

Land, State

"I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land."

Jon Stewart, American Entertainer

Land, Old, Thanksgiving

"Western concepts of ownership and privatization came in and clashed with that. So land began to be exchanged."

Neil Abercrombie, American Politician

Land, Ownership

"The lowest and most level land areas show us, especially when we dig there to very great depths, nothing but horizontal layers of material more or less varied, which almost all contain innumerable products of the sea."

George Cuvier, French Naturalist

Land, Nothing, Sea

"Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?"

David R. Brower, American Environmentalist

Land, Scientists, Waste, Will

"Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there."

M. E. W. Sherwood, American Author

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"With respect to Holy Communion, it is up to the communicant to decide whether they are in a state of grace and worthy to receive the Eucharist. Each one of us makes that decision."

Decision, Grace, Respect, State

"I personally believe, as church law sets out, that sanctions are an absolute last resort, particularly penal sanctions of depriving people of the sacraments."

People, Church, Law

"It's hard to determine where lies culpability."

Lie, Lies

"Our country stands at a critical point in its history. Our heritage as a nation of immigrants is at stake."

History, Country, Nation

"It appears fashionable these days, and almost politically correct, to blame hard-working immigrants, especially those from Mexico and Central America, for the social and economic ills of our state and nation."

America, Blame, Nation, State

"We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing."

Community, Healing, Lawyers

"I find it inconceivable that we're meeting for five and a half days, and there isn't one moment on the agenda to deal with the greatest crisis we've ever had in the church since 1789."

Church, Crisis, Meeting

"The nature of our two main political parties has changed in the United States."

Nature, states, United

"We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right."

Life, Time, Father, People

"It is unacceptable that immigrants, including children, are shackled and detained in deplorable conditions. And it is unacceptable that already this year immigrants have died by the dozens in the California desert or in other parts of the Southwest."

Children,