Israel Zangwill Quotes

England really is at the forefront of being a melting pot of all cultures.

That's what this country is. It's made up of immigrants.

The great social adventure of America is no longer the conquest of the wilderness but the absorption of fifty different peoples.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

America was born as a nation of immigrants who have always contributed to its greatness.

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

Our first challenge in America today is simply to open our eyes to these changes, to discover America anew, and to explore the many ways in which the new immigration has changed the religious landscape of our cities and towns, our neighborhoods and schools.

Those who stay in America should be open to society without melting.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

We have too many foreigners in France. Diversity is not working.

Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

We are a nation of immigrants.

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

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

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

This is nothing less than a national tragedy…. It is time to consider these refugees arriving from Poland and elsewhere purely on their merits as migrants and in an unsentimental light. In the last 50 years these people have swarmed all over Europe, coming principally from Armenia, Russia and the Balkans. We should remember that they are European neither by race, standards, nor culture. They are, in fact, an Eastern people. In 2000 years no one but Britain has been successfully able to absorb them, and for the most part they owe loyalty and allegiance to none.

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

I come from a nation of peoples drawn from all around the world.

The melting pot has sprung a leak.

Immigrants are changed by the greater society. Immigrants change the greater society.

We are a nation of immigrants - all of us.

The world's moving; people move around the world. A lot of people coming to this country have terrific talent to bring to the country - not just in business and in the professions but in Parliament as well. And we need some failsafe system so that, right at the outset, they are aware that they have to drop any other citizenship.

I'm very proud being Puerto Rican. I'm American. That is what America is made of - people from different lands.

Immigration is important. We're a nation of immigrants.

Immigrants and foreigners have always been an indispensable part of our country, including its great record in scientific research.