Safe, sane and consensual what do those words really mean?…

“The Portland school board's policy equated integration and racial assimilation. This policy, Rist explains, is a "means of socializing nonwhite students to act, speak,…

— Derrick Bell

“Being an immigrant is not a status but a state of mind. It doesn’t stop when you “assimilate” or “integrate” or when you go…

— Stewart Stafford

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.

— Heinrich Heine

“[I]nclusion, not assimilation, should be the key concept in seeking, ever seeking, a more perfect national union. Our own history has shown that we…

— Dan Rather

“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things…

— Vera Nazarian

“Fuck I hate fucks Who think they’re so fucking great They know everything about fucking, When they’re just fucking fucks fucking! And no one…

— Initially NO

Jewish history turns out not to be an either/or story - as in, either pure Judaism detached from its surroundings or else assimilation -…

— Simon Schama

“It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she…

— Sergio Troncoso

Intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others.

— Jane Addams

“Does assimilation mean that they never came up against naked prejudice? Does it mean that you understood where the limits of your social world…

— Edmund de Waal

Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation.…

— Kenneth Arrow

“If you aren't destroying your enemies, it's because you have been conquered and assimilated, you do not even have an idea of who your…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

Finally it should be the earnest wish and paramount aim of the military administration to win the confidence, respect, and affection of the inhabitants…

— William McKinley

If you would be a writer, first be a reader. Only through the assimilation of ideas, thoughts and philosophies can one begin to focus…

— Allan W. Eckert

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

— Swami Vivekananda