Jess Row Quotes

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

Cinema plays an important role in uniting the entire nation as a single unit.

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

For me, it's important to get back to fundamentally what it feels like to be an American. We all come from different backgrounds, but we come together and create this world. It's like a microcosm for the rest of the world. I want people to feel unity when they come to a show.

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.

However great his outward conformity, the immigrant is not Americanized unless his interests and affections have become deeply rooted here. And we properly demand of the immigrant even more than this. He must be brought into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperate with us for their attainment.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

Americans are as they are. We have to accept this. Lots of Europeans forget that.

In my last I contended that none of those ties which are necessary to bind a people together and make them one, existed between the colonists and Mexicans.

The country is the people.

A portion of mankind may be said to constitute a Nationality if they are united among themselves by common sympathies which do not exist between them and any others—which make them co-operate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to be under the same government, and desire that it should be government by themselves or a portion of themselves exclusively.

Nobody is sure what our culture is or whether we even have a national culture at all.

We are all Americans, sir.

Nationalism usually conquers in the name of a putative folk culture.

Nationality is belief in a common origin and end.

The motherland is the common mother, the unity within which isolated the individuals penetrate and become enmeshed. It is the holy name that expresses the voluntary fusion of all interests into one interest, of all lives into one lasting and perpetual life.

A common language is critical to cohesion and national identity in an ethnically diverse society

If we leave our values at the door, we give up some of the moral glue that has held our country together

Britishness has got to be the foundation of the multicultural society in this country. Anything less than this is farcical and treacherous.

The American Motion Picture industry should do all that is within its power to upbuild and strengthen the spirit of Americanism within our people.

We're Americans. It's a culture. We should defend that culture, and we should reinforce that culture.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Cinema is a great binding force for a nation.

I don't think it's such a bad idea that people learn the same history in school. I think it tends to ground people and give them something to respond to and react against.

Extreme multiculturalism... is not the way to build this country.