Andy Ngo Quotes

New York isn't segregated the way many American cities are, where there are specific ethnic neighborhoods that don't necessarily co-exist, or they co-exist but in a much separate sense.

People who refuse to integrate into our society and want to live apart in their ghetto don't make our society strong.

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

America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

We have a whole bunch of young people and a whole bunch of families. Are we going to disrupt these families and tear them apart? Or are we going think, like, listen - these people are here. We've got to deal with this reality. We've got to extend the franchise.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

As I went between the Islamic Society in my college and university, the mosque, the halal takeaway, and visited the homes of my male Muslim friends, it was entirely possible for me to get through my day without interacting in any meaningful way with a single non-Muslim.

I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

Miami is a melting pot in which none of the stones melt. They rattle around.

There is a tremendous human variety that manages to squeeze itself into this narrow piece of land and live side by side--in the same city, but on different planets

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.

What we want in this country is not Jews who can successfully keep up their Jewishness in a few large ghettos, but men and women who have grown up in freedom and can assert themselves wherever they are. A parochial system of education among the Jews would be fatal to such hopes.

The melting pot was always a tension between difference and sameness.

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

Our nation has been called a melting pot. I think of it more as a mosaic, one to which many groups make their own distinct contributions.

The Jews must be refused everything as a separate nation, and be granted everything as individuals.... There cannot be a nation within a nation.

I expected to find a contest between a government and a people: I found two nations (French and English) warring in the bosom of a single state: I found a struggle, not of principles, but of races.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

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

There is room enough in this country for one great free people; but there's not room enough, under the same flag and the same laws, for two or three angry, suspicious, obstructive "nationalities.

… mongrel nation

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.

Islam is here to stay, in this country, in this city (Amsterdam) We have to deal with Islam as a fact, not whether we like it. So the real question is how to get on with each other.

We are a British nation with British characteristics. Every country can take some small minorities and in many ways they add to the richness and variety of this country. The moment the minority threatens to become a big one, people get frightened