Stef Wertheimer Quotes

The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes or even our parents' or grandparents' lifetimes.

This is a country where Jews and Arabs speak without fear. Where people come from different cultures the world over. Where everyone becomes Brazilian rapidly.

We are a pluralistic Nation composed of very distinct groups, each bound together by ethnicity, race, or religion - each group proud of its identity and committed to its faith and traditions. Yet despite these differences, we can be bound together into a broader community.

You can be of any ethnic background or faith and be a Canadian if you share fundamental Canadian values, learn about our history and culture, and integrate in our society.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

Citizenship rights is about making all Iranians feel they are part of one nation, one identity, under one umbrella they can feel proud of.

It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

I have confidence that we can form this kind of national community.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

It brings people together. It brings the races together. It brings religions together.

To harmonize the One with the Many, this is indeed a difficult adjustment, perhaps the most difficult of all, and so important, withal, that nations have perished from their failure to achieve it.

Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family.

I think integration in Norway is, by all standards, going relatively well. People are working, taking education, learning the language. But, yes, it is a challenge. And democracy and democratic debate has to be open to take that debate openly and not push questions aside.

We will make every effort to unify all ethnic groups, to strengthen belief in Taiwan and to persist in reform.

There is a school in Israel called Hand in Hand which I support. There Arab and Jewish students study together on a daily basis.

The Jewish world is becoming fully integrated with the ideas of the normal world. They feed off each other.

The great American tradition is one of pluralism, not exclusive secularism. The strength of our country is reflected in the contributions that we all make to the common good.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

We are all sons and daughters of the Republic.

If tolerance of diversity involves an admitted element of risk to national unity, intolerance involves a certainty that unity will be destroyed.

What we want in this country is not Jews who can successfully keep up their Jewishness in a few large ghettos, but men and women who have grown up in freedom and can assert themselves wherever they are. A parochial system of education among the Jews would be fatal to such hopes.

If citizenship means anything, it means sharing the pleasures and pains of American life.

We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don't make us weak. They're the source of our strength.

America is not held together by a common race, religion or ethnicity; it is held together by shared values.