Valerie Jarrett Quotes

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.

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.

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 are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

The gift I have to give to my fellow countrymen and people around the world, the facts are the Muslim community are our gift. They are the fabric of what makes America great.

I love the diversity of my district, and it does drive a fair amount of my work.

I believe, whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies. So India's this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasion, working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.

It is so important for European countries, post-Second World War, to prove that they can be successful multiethnic and multiracial democracies. I think we in Britain have had great success in avoiding the hatreds and prejudices of the past.

Britain is an open and tolerant country, and I will fight with everything I have to keep it so.

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

Diversity, it is good. This country has been built by diversity. But diversity in sharing of values? For me, it's not good.

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.

Britain is an amazing multicultural place to live in, and that should be celebrated and represented.

There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.

We are, by many measures, one of the more diverse cities in the country, growing more diverse all the time, and one of the more harmonious in terms of how we live together.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words 'diversity' and 'tolerance' won't be in their vocabulary. They won't need them - they'll live it.

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.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

We all have our place in this diverse Spain.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.