Jim Webb Quotes

We are living in a multicultural society. Our role as leaders is to enable grappling with this situation, even when multiculturalism is difficult.

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

Value the perspective of different cultures and recognize the cultural mores that underpin groups and appreciate why these are valued and important.

Diversity is what is destroying the country.

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

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.

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.

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

We are a unique country — multi-cultural, multi-ethnic and multi-religious. Therefore, out of necessity, we need to moderate our positions. There is no harm in seeking solidarity of one's race but we must accept the basic truth that each one of us needs to communicate peacefully across the racial divide for the betterment of one's community.

All the lessons of psychiatry, psychology, social work, indeed culture, have taught us over the last hundred years that it is the acceptance of differences, not the search for similarities which enables people to relate to each other in their personal or family lives.

Our first challenge in America today is simply to open our eyes to these changes, to discover America anew, and to explore the many ways in which the new immigration has changed the religious landscape of our cities and towns, our neighborhoods and schools.

We honor cultural identity, but separatism is not allowed.

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.

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.

More than 300 languages are spoken in London. Religions are freely practiced. Rich and poor live on the same street, side by side. We've actually escaped many of the most difficult problems - integration and community cohesion.

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.

People need to see that, far from being an obstacle, the world's diversity of languages, religions and traditions is a great treasure, affording us precious opportunities to recognize ourselves in others.

Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

America rests on shared values rather than shared ethnicity.

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

Preservation of one's own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.

I believe that our country is a richer, more vibrant society precisely because it is a multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

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