Jonathan Sacks Quotes

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.

I was so fortunate to play my club cricket at Moseley Ashfield. We had loads of Asians, white players, black players. You grow up from that knowing it just doesn't matter what religion or culture people are into, everyone is different.

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.

My schools were quite diverse - those who serve their country come from every race and religion - and so the military schools I attended were a wonderful melting pot.

You know, the diversity that America has is so special. It's starting to really become a cool thing for young people.

Assimilation is what has made America great.

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

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.

I go to a church that's an interracial church.

Every musician tries to blend in some reggae. It's the only music that brings all people together, different races, different religions.

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.

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.

In spite of the huge diversity in Malaysia in terms of religion, culture, race, ethnicity and so forth, we've really gone very far in developing this country.

We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

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

The Negro has been here in America since 1619, a total of 344 years. He is not going anywhere else; this country is his home. He wants to do his part to help make his city, state, and nation a better place for everyone, regardless of color and race.

The great thing about musicals is that they transcend race.

The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

In America, you're just an American. You're accepted. It doesn't matter that you're of whatever race. If anything, I'm British, and that's it. So let's just get on with it, really.

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

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

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

The white and colored people of this country [can] be blended into a common nationality…

The challenge facing America in the next century will be the shaping, at long last, of a truly common public culture, one responsive to the long silenced cultures of color.