Jimmy Smits Quotes

Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.

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.

Every day our nation grows a little darker from massive nonwhite immigration, high nonwhite birthrate and increasing racial miscegenation.

California is going to become a Hispanic state and if anyone doesn't like it they should leave -- they ought to go back to Europe.

Why can't you ask people if they want more or fewer Germans or Belgians or Moroccans?

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!

At the last census it indicated that about 22 per cent of Australians were born overseas.

The U.S. is a complex country. It has a high predominance of immigrants who have been eminently successful.

America is the result of the amalgam of three people: Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans

The Melting Pot

Our country is a country where immigration is history and it is a country where immigration is destiny.

We can't restore our civilization with someome else's babies.

Our forefathers increased and decreased the influx of peoples because America was building a melting pot and because certain ethnicities often brought with them certain securities and degrees of productivity.

When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. Today, hundreds, maybe thousands of Africans live in Istanbul's old city alone. It's hard to imagine their lives in their human totality.

We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.

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.

China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an immigrant nation. You don't see a lot of American engineers trying to be Chinese citizens.

You know that American dream and American spirit of innovation we always talk about? Turns out, the bulk of it was built by people who came to America from somewhere else, not people born American. We have no birthright or natural lock on these things.

The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

Sweden was once a very homogenous society, but no more. For decades, people have been coming into Sweden from all over the world, and that's changed the way we cook.

I am in favour of the notion of Australia as an immigrant society.

Although it requires some adjustment by those already here, immigration has made the U.S.A. the most prosperous nation on Earth.

We must insist on assimilation - immigration without assimilation is an invasion. We need to tell folks who want to come here, they need to come here legally. They need to learn English, adopt our values, roll up their sleeves and get to work.

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.