S. I. Hayakawa Quotes

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.

America's strength is not our diversity; our strength is our ability to unite people of different backgrounds around common principles. A common language is necessary to reach that goal.

What supposedly bound that Commonwealth together was a mysterious shared identity - Britishness.

One motherland, one sanskriti (culture), common ancestry and heritage and unity in diversity. It is these three that constitute the national culture. The mode of worship can differ from person to person.

One of these days every person in Canada will be a Canadian.

Our confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which all America, North or South, is to be peopled … speaking the same language, governed in similar forms, and by similar laws.

One united people, regardless of race, language or religion.

America is a collection of people from different races, religions, and backgrounds - that is part of what makes us great. But a common language is what brings all of those people together to form a community.

It gives a message to people of love... it does not matter what's the colour of your skin, what language do you speak, what religion do you believe in. It is that we should all consider each other as human beings and we should respect each other.

There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together.

A common language is the most obvious binding element in any society.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.

If God had so wished, he would have made all Indians speak with one language ... the unity of India has been and shall always be a unity in diversity.

Many people with different backgrounds, cultures, languages, and creeds combine to make a nation. But that nation is greater than the sum total of the individual skills and talents of its people. Something more grows out of their unity than can be calculated by adding the assets of individual contributions. That intangible additional quantity is often due to the differences which make the texture of the nation rich. Therefore, we must never wipe out or deride the differences amongst us-for where there is no difference, there is only indifference.

Africa. There are a gazillion different languages people speak there, different bone structures, so vast and different.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

The United States is enriched by many cultures, and united by a single common language.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

My love of the British is equal to that of my own people.

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

It is time for us to come together as one united people.