| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 66606 |
| QUOTATION: | Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut—a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Anzia Yezierska (1881?–1970), Polish-born U.S. author. “How I Found America,” pt. 3, Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920).
Anzia Yezierska, born in Russian Poland, emigrated to the United States at age seventeen. |
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