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" A broken immigration system means broken families and broken lives. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Broken
System
Immigration
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" You know, I'm one of millions of undocumented people in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. And in many ways, coming out, it was my way of - at the end of the day, I think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system. And because of that, I had to tell the truth about myself. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
People
Myself
Day
" Since I got to this country when I was 12, I've been obsessed with this idea of whiteness and blackness because I realized I was neither. For me, it was so important to me to make a film that focused on whiteness because you wouldn't have blackness if you didn't have whiteness. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
You
Country
Important
" My mother made a choice. And when I was younger, I judged her for making that choice. Then I got older and got to be an adult, and I realized that was the ultimate sacrifice that any parent and any mother could possibly make. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Sacrifice
Choice
Her
" I am more than an immigration activist. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Than
More
Immigration
" You have to do what you have to do. I wanted to work. I wanted to prove that I was worthy of being here... and I was gonna do whatever it took to prove that. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
You
Work
Worthy
" I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
America
Group
I Am
" Undocumented people get arrested all the time. I get arrested, and it's front-page news. I feel guilt. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
People
I Feel
Guilt
" People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
You
Say
Some
" Left-leaning bloggers have had a tremendous impact on the Democratic Party. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Party
Democratic
Bloggers
" I think everyone deserves dignity. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Everyone
Dignity
I Think
" I've always really wanted to make a film on what it means to be white in a country that's getting less and less white. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Less
Make
White
" As I graduated from public schools and started working in newsrooms, I told myself that I am only the 'illegal' that my own country has not bothered to get to know. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Know
My Own
Country
" On the surface, I've created a good life. I've lived the American dream. But I am still an undocumented immigrant. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
I Am
American Dream
Dream
" I think the hardest stories we tell are always the ones about ourselves. And as a journalist, I was taught that I'm never supposed to put myself in the story. So I spent what, 11, 12 years of my life writing about other people so I don't have to face my own life. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Writing
Myself
People
" At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Listening
Politics
Waiting
" I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Young
People
Passionate
" The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Relationship
Government
Life
" I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Far
I Am
Leader
" Facebook's privacy policies are confusing to many people, and the company has changed them frequently, almost always allowing more information to be exposed in more ways. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Privacy
People
Company
" I think everybody could agree that our immigration system is broken. We have not told the truth about it. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Immigration
Truth
Think
" I believe fundamentally in the kindness of the American people because I have been a beneficiary of it. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
American
Believe
People
" In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Start
My Life
Life
" After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade and quickly grew to love my new home, family and culture. I discovered a passion for language, though it was hard to learn the difference between formal English and American slang. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Culture
Love
Home
" There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Look
Because
Way
" You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Want
American
Away
" I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Alone
Try
People
" I have no control whatsoever on how people perceive me from the Right or the Left. All I have control over is who I say I am. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Me
Control
Say
" The more successful I got, the more scared I got. My name was all over Google. I had a Wikipedia page I was terrified to look at. And so I just snapped. I thought, 'If I'm going to come out with this, I'm going to do it in a big way. And not just for myself. This can't just be my story.' "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Look
Myself
Name
" For decades, I have cringed whenever someone called me 'illegal,' as if I'm an insect on someone's back. I found out I didn't have the right papers - that I was here illegally - when I tried to get a driver's permit at age 16. But I am not 'illegal.' No person is. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
Age
Someone
Person
" Laws are getting passed in states like Alabama that basically would punish American citizens who are 'harboring' people. Since the federal government hasn't been able to muster or to get comprehensive immigration reform passed, states are taking it upon themselves to police and enforce laws. "
Jose Antonio Vargas
People
American
Police