From the notebook, quotes that summed up the day

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Oday Shahin, who arrived as a child from Jordan, wearing a dishdasha at a protest Thursday.

More quotes make it into a reporter's notebook than ever make it out, and on Thursday I gathered many while making my way around downtown Phoenix, where hundreds of SB 1070 opponents held protests in several locations. Some of their comments were published earlier, some not:

"This is not a Latino issue. This has happened in American history to many other groups." (Oday Shahin, 21, an Arizona State University student who arrived from Jordan at age 9)

"Not one more mother gets pulled away from her children. Not in my name." (Rev. Susan Frederick-Gray of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Phoenix, said while blocking the entrance to a Sheriff's booking facility)

"I'm not an immigrant, but I know tons of people who are, so I speak for them." (Victor Cruz, 31, a Los Angeles-area resident who arrived from Honduras at age 2)

"Basically, the politicians are going to do what they want to do." (A 60-year-old man who only identified himself as a longtime Phoenix resident, watching a protest from the sidewalk)

"I want to support these people. What they (the state) was doing was wrong." (Consuelo Plata, 83, who participated in a march through downtown Phoenix in her wheelchair, pushed along by her granddaughter)

"Yesterday, my brother was going to leave. But because the law was stopped, he didn't." (Patricia Rosas, an undocumented immigrant who spoke at a morning prayer service, telling the crowd that members of her family had left the state in fear of the new law)