Tuesday, June 01, 2010

ARIZONA STATE MOTTO: DITAT DEUS


A Reminder to Arizona Lawmakers

Remember, remember always, that all of us... are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.
- J. Hector St. John de Crevecouer

In times of shrinking expectations,... everyone feels like a victim and pushes away outsiders to defend his own corner.
- Oscar Handlin

Remember that when you say "I will have non of this exile and this stranger for his face is not like my face and his speech is strange," you have denied America with that word.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

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.
- Emma Lazarus

Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life.
- John F. Kennedy


In response to Arizona's "Enactment" of State Bill 1070.

A little reminder to Arizona Senator (R) Russell Pierce, Governor Jan Brewer and the peoples of the State of Arizona.

DITAT DEUS (Latin: "God Enriches")

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