Octavia Spencer Quotes

This country isn't a melting pot. Think of this country as a stir fry. That's what this country should be. A place where people are appreciated for who they are.

Society is unity in diversity.

In a post-9/11 world, diversity has become even more important.

In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.

Our cultural diversity has most certainly shaped our national character.

From the newest arrivals to our Native American brothers and sisters, we are one America.

We honor cultural identity, but separatism is not allowed.

Assimilation was never the goal of the diverse ethnic groups in America. Inclusion without discomfort is now, and ever will be, the goal.

I am a Londoner. I'm British. I'm of Islamic faith, Asian origin, Pakistani heritage, so whether it's ISIS or others who want to destroy our way of life and talk about the West, they're talking about me. What better antidote to the hatred they spew than someone like me being in this position.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

I try to remind people that there are a lot of good people, all colors. Then there's some bad ones, too. But there's a lot of good people who really care.

Our nation's multiculturalism is what makes us so special as a nation.

We do not let slip from our understanding that America was founded on a bonding of many people, from many places and of various color and religion.

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.

When we were growing up we were all asked to accept ourselves as British citizens, and I still hold on to this idea that multicultural Britain is possible.

Freedom is found in pluralism.

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.

We should do more than tolerate our diversity. We should honor and celebrate it..

We are for allowing difference and respecting difference until difference doesn't make a difference any more.

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

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

The opposite of segregation is not integration. Martin Luther King didn't dream about a completely integrated world. He knew this was a pluralistic society and that ethnics tend to keep an identity. It's not a contradiction.

One people out of many.