Melting Pot Quotes
65 quotes by 61 authors
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We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.
— Jimmy Carter
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Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of us. But that…
— Barbara Jordan
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The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together, in…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.
— Jesse Jackson
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Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get in the pot…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be…
— Edward Said
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The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting into…
— Thurgood Marshall
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Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.
— Bob Cousy
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I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal with each other.…
— Jenji Kohan
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The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would you want to…
— Rose Byrne
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I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America…
— Bob Ney
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If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does…
— Shashi Tharoor
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Hawai'i has often been called a melting pot, but I think of it more as a 'mixed plate'---a scoop of rice with gravy, a scoop…
— Alan Brennert
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Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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The United Nations is an organizational body where people, through their Governments, come together; and it can be the only place where there can be…
— Asma Jahangir
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Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all.
— Esperanza Spalding
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Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to…
— Eric Holder
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My family is just an amazing melting pot of wonderful religions and faiths.
— Rima Fakih
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Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great…
— Rima Fakih
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America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity…
— Ronald Reagan
Who Wrote These Melting Pot Quotes
61 authors contributed a total of 65 Melting Pot Quotes, led by these top contributors: