Stephen the Great Quotes

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

I think Australia has to be a country which has the 'Welcome' sign out.

New Americans are not to be feared as strangers. They are to be welcomed as neighbors.

London is the most multicultural, mixed-race place on Earth.

Europe itself is an embodiment of this diversity.

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.

One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

The prominence given to our nation as a rainbow country has its genesis and credence in our 'Calaloo culture' of which our East Indian brothers and sisters have played a principal part.

One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!

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

Assimilation is what has made America great.

We don’t often take advantage of our American diversity, so why are we celebrating it so much.

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

Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shore.

New Orleans is truly a city of many nations, a melting pot, a bubbling cauldron of many cultures. There is no other place quite like it in the world that so eloquently exemplifies the uniquely American motto: e pluribus unum — out of many we are one.

Canada is the only country in the West that hasn't given in to the rhetoric of fear. The dominant rhetoric is a line of inclusion.

America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

In Florida, we're the best melting pot in the world. We love everybody coming to our state.

One reason I'm grateful to call Hawai'i home is that the people of these islands embrace diversity and celebrate the colorful fabric of race, ethnicity, and religion that make up our people, place, and culture.

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

My country is nothing if not diverse.

The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city - there's Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there's African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans.

I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.

When you look at America and its diversity, it's not a coincidence it's the best country on earth. Subtract that diversity, and it wouldn't be the greatest nation.