Right Here, Right Now Quotes

“Quotas by country ensured that over two-thirds of immigrants were from just three countries—the U.K., Ireland, and Germany. Starting in 1965, all this would change. Some changes would be for the better. But some of the changes have not been. From that moment forward, U.S. immigration policy has gradually become disconnected from the interests and views of Americans. The Immigration Act of 1965 is a now largely overlooked part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society agenda. But the president, unveiling it at Liberty Island in New York, called it “one of the most important acts of this Congress and of this administration.”20 He was not exaggerating.21”
― Stephen J. Harper, Right Here, Right Now: Politics and Leadership in the Age of Disruption