Richard Lamm Quotes
We can make the United States a 'Hispanic Quebec' without much effort. The key is to celebrate diversity rather than unity.
Lamm, Richard D. "I Have a Plan to Destroy America." Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) Conference, Washington, D.C., 3 Oct. 2003.
In revolutionary America, not only were the colonists divided into revolutionists and loyalists to Britain, but among the revolutionists, there was no uniformity of manners, ideas, norms, beliefs or any other element of politics and unity. The great challenge to America and one of its great strengths is its diversity which is not a consequence of recent immigration, but has been a characteristic of the American body politic even in the Revolutionary War. Even English was not spoken by everyone as there were French, German, Scandinavian and other immigrants who had settled in the frontier and rarely came into contact with people other than those of their own family and community. The notion of a specific American culture to which which some today believe that we should return, never existed to begin with.
Most immigration reformers want to open immigration more widely. Ward wanted immigration restricted to certain ethnicities and limited. He wanted a uniformity of assimilation and not diversity.
Richard Douglas Lamm is an American politician, writer, and attorney. He served three terms as 38th Governor of Colorado as a Democrat (1975–1987) and ran for the Reform Party's nomination for President of the United States in 1996. Lamm is a Certified Public Accountant and currently the Co-Director of the Institute for Public Policy Studies at the University of Denver.
