As someone who grew up in a community filled with new…

New Canadians are coming from often traditional backgrounds, where they have a strong faith base and family is the core of their societies. Conservatives…

— Leslyn Lewis

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or…

— Al Smith

During the election people from visible minorities stood as candidates on both the left and the right. And only one African woman was elected…

— Patrick Gaubert

“Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines.”

— Michael Ignatieff

I'm constantly amazed when I talk with people in the international stage and I refer to immigrants or refugees as new Canadians. We don't…

— Justin Trudeau

Jeff Chu's pilgrimage across America to discover his own place as a gay man in the Christian church as well as attitudes about being…

— Donna Freitas

It rolls off my back. Ridicule doesn't mean anything - even from people you're supposed to wear knee pads around, like the scientific community.

— Dwight Schultz

I have to feel the audience. I enjoy that feeling of community.

— Dave Gahan

We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a…

— Edgar Mitchell

The social [media channel] isn't about beauty contests and popularity contests. They're a distortion, a caricature of the real thing. It's about trust, connection,…

— Umair Haque

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my…

— Sharon Horgan

The strains and stresses suffered by the individual in society are grounded in the normal functioning of that society (and of the individual!) rather…

— Herbert Marcuse

In the hearing world, I'm constantly having to lip-read and trying to understand what's going on. Sign language is so beautiful. It gives you…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

But we are convinced that if we are to play a meaningful role nationally, and in the community of nations, we must be second…

— Vikram Sarabhai

Race is the idea that a human being is more superior than another human being, race in society grants illusional rights to mistreat each…

— Jeremy Limn