Melting pot Quote by Debby Irving

The United States has been called the melting pot of the world. But it seems to me that the colored man either missed getting…

— Thurgood Marshall

“Assimilation and melting into the American pot has always been easier [for white people]. It's very hard for blackfolk to melt into the pot.…

— Chuck D

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…

— Thurgood Marshall

Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

— Anonymous

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

— Jesse Jackson

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

— Mike Colter

The melting pot failed to function in one crucial area. Religions and nationalities, however different, generally learned to live together, even to grow together,…

— Theodore Hesburgh

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

— Pearl S. Buck

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

We no longer want to be a melting pot, because we don't understand what is already melted.

— Wynton Marsalis

At first, I was able to use a Bunsen burner attached to my mother's gas stove, but the use of the kitchen as a…

— John Vane

Looking back on it now, I understand why that was not possible [to express ourselves], because the pottery employed a dozen people, not all…

— Warren MacKenzie