Jesse Jackson Quotes

The melting pot has sprung a leak.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.

Explain to me what Italian-American culture is. We've been here 100 years. Isn't Italian-American culture American culture? That's because we're so diverse, in terms of intermarriage.

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

Our nation has been called a melting pot. I think of it more as a mosaic, one to which many groups make their own distinct contributions.

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

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

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

There are men of eighteen different languages; they are scattered here and there upon the [Hudson] river.

The Melting Pot

Of the hundred million of the population of Greater France, almost sixty are not of European origin. If they are to be kept in permanent French allegiance their loyalty must be secured. The French flatter themselves that they are peculiarly successful in winning the affections of those over whom they rule. So be it, though it is probable they entertain a good many illusions in this respect.

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

It seems to me that the idea traditionally defended of endeavoring to maintain existing ethnic balances simply doesn't work any more.

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

When I was growing up, Forest Park was full of integrated families. It was amazing. One my best friends was Vietnamese. Another one was half-Mexican, half-black. Another one was from Colombia. Another one was born in the U.S., but his mom was from Germany and spoke with a German accent. So we all had multiple identities.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

The Indo-Canadian community has been a microcosm of the people of Indian origin living abroad besides reflecting India's diversity.

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

The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We don't talk about our strengths. I mean, having so many diverse people in this country from all aspects of all over the world, and we don't use that. I think we should talk about who we are - that melting pot that we've become.

You know one little way in which baseball changes us? We don't even think twice about Japanese names anymore. You know what I mean?

I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.

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.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.