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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
• Americanization means the process of becoming an American. It means civic incorporation, becoming a part of the polity - becoming one of… — Barbara Jordan
• The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to… — Theodore Hesburgh
• I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted. — Jesse Jackson
• Some years ago I said in an opinion that if this country is a melting pot, then either the Afro-Americans didn't get… — Thurgood Marshall
• Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic… — Edward Said
• The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either… — Thurgood Marshall
• Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures. — Bob Cousy
• I'm always looking for those places where you can slam really disparate people up against one another, and they have to deal… — Jenji Kohan
• The British are so funny. It's like they can't believe I lived in Hackney. 'You could live in Bondi Beach. Why would… — Rose Byrne
• I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot… — Bob Ney
• If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes… — Shashi Tharoor

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