Maxime Bernier Quotes

I grew up in a neighborhood with blacks and Puerto Ricans and Italians, the whole gamut, so conveying unity has always meant a lot to me.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

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.

When you've got a society that is diverse, what happens is for a time, the issue is integrating your minorities into that society.

The truth is that many, if not most, nations of the world are made up of different peoples - and cultures and beliefs and religions - who find themselves thrown together by circumstance.

I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.

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.

We should embrace our immigrant roots and recognize that newcomers to our land are not part of the problem, they are part of the solution.

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

One of the things that's beautiful about New Orleans is how culturally rich we are and how well we have worked together. People call us a gumbo. It's really important that we get focused on the very simple notion that diversity is a strength, it's not a weakness.

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

Victoria is proudly the multicultural capital of Australia; we have a diverse, harmonious community.

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.

We are increasingly recognising and accepting, respecting and celebrating, our cultural diversity.

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

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!

There is so much that is positive, wonderful even, about state schools. At a state school your kids will learn to live alongside and appreciate other kids from many diverse and different cultures.

America's a melting pot, all races, cultures, religious choices.

In a multi-racial society, trust, understanding and tolerance are the cornerstones of peace and order

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

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.