Johanna Konta Quotes

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.

I'm three-quarters Russian, so I've always felt an outsider. But I don't think you can be in a play with John Of Gaunt's 'This sceptred isle' speech and not feel proud to be British.

I think we forget that, for a really long time, this country has been a place that has welcomed many refugees who have made it home and have tremendously contributed to this country.

It is important that those that do come to settle in the U.K. gain a sense of British identity and share British values. We have always attracted the best and brightest.

In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.

I've never felt British. I'm just not interested in national identity. I don't know why.

I'm a Canadian citizen. But I always want to feel at home in Sri Lanka. I'm a member of both countries.

By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America.

But I don't want anybody to say have the right to say well if you bloody Brits don't like it go home. And they have the right to say that if you haven't become a citizen.

In grade school I was taught that the United States is a melting pot. People from all over the world come here for freedom and to pursue a better life. They arrive with next to nothing, work incredibly hard, learn a new language and new customs, and in a generation they become an integral part of our amazing nation.

I see myself as British, and I want to be celebrated by Britain.

I'm an American citizen now, but I will always have Canadian pride.

Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules.

We [native-born] could not choose, but they [immigrants] could and did choose to be Americans.

IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture…. We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society. Learn the language! …. If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

We used to have a view that to really be a good Australian, to love Australia, you almost had to cut your links with the country of origin. But I don’t think that was right and it never was right.

There was no question of the racial superiority of northwestern Europeans or of the racial inferiority of southeastern Europeans. It was simply a question as to which of these two groups of aliens is, as a whole, best fitted by tradition, political background, customs, education, and habits of thought to adjust itself to American institutions and to American social and economic conditions--to become, in short, an adaptable, homogeneous and helpful element in American national life.

Countries like France, Italy and the Netherlands may pay lip service to inclusion, but the ethos in those places is that immigrants can never really become French, Italian or Dutch, no matter what their passports say. The emphasis is on tolerance and respect, but there’s no real expectation that foreign nationals fit in.

Tolerance has to be shown by those who come to this country for a new way of life. If you are not prepared to become Australian and give this country your undivided loyalty, obey our laws, respect our culture and way of life, then I suggest you go back where you came from.

For most of my life, the U.S. was never anything more than vacation memories.

We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

I'm fully English, but Portugal is my home.

Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.

I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.