Warren Christopher Quotes

A crusade for multiculturalism in the post-Soviet world is a prescription for perpetual war.

We are a multicultural society in a continuous state of abrasion.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

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

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

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.

They must not only give up their attitude of intolerance towards this hand and its age-long traditions, but must also cultivate the positive attitude of love and devotion instead—they must cease to be foreigners, or may stay in the country wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges… not even citizen’s rights.

The white and colored people of this country [can] be blended into a common nationality…

The moment we invite to our table men of another race ... we affirm that we acknowledge them as our fellow countrymen as they acknowledge we are theirs.

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.

A constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state

Westerners and Muslims don't agree on the basics of social order and don't want to live under the same rules. That shouldn't be a problem because that's what separate countries are for. We should stop occupying their countries and stop letting them move to ours.

The truth is that many, if not most, nations of the world are made up of different peoples - and cultures and beliefs and religions - who find themselves thrown together by circumstance.

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

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

Yugoslavia is a multinational community and it can survive only under the conditions of full equality for all nations that live in it.

For as long as multinational communities have existed, their weak point has always been the relations between different nations.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

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

Greater diversity can produce real conflicts of values and interests, but it also generates unjustified fears…. The visibility of ethnic difference means that it often overshadows other forms of diversity.

There have been very few societies which are multi-racial and knew any degree of peace.

A State which is incompetent to satisfy different races condemns itself.

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

Assimilation is what has made America great.