Think of Our Immigrants

“No man is an island entire of himself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If clod be washed away by sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind. Therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee.”

_{I had to memorize this paragraph for my first high school English course. It is an excerpt from “Meditation XVII” in Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624) by John Donne (1572-1631) an English poet and cleric of the Church of England. It has stayed with me over these 57 years because it remains relevant.}