Louis D. Brandeis Quotes

America is remarkable, don't you think so? When I came to Washington, I was twelve years old. I spoke English with an English accent. It was assumed that it would go on in that way.

Latinas who come to the U.S. should adapt, learn English and become a part of the community.

They say that immigrants don’t speak English. So? Who cares. Even the Irish learned English after a while.

When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.

It is often not even wise to try to make an American of the best of aliens.

I didn't move to Miami to live in a Spanish-speaking province.

Immigrants to the United States usually arrive with a willingness to fit into their new country and reshape their identities accordingly.

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.

Rather than be asked to abandon one's own heritage and to adapt to the mores of the new country, one was expected to possess a treasure of foreign skills and customs that would enrich the resources of American living.

I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.

The Indian community in Canada has integrated much better than the Indian community in United States. They've become really Canadian at the same time as keeping all their Indian characters and customs and social groups.

Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it.

I still have an accent. But when I return to Prague, I speak the language yet do not know what they are talking about.

Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.

I certainly know German colleagues in the U.S. who try to be Americans, try to melt into Americanism, even before they get married and become American citizens. But I've never tried that.

Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans — convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

I know that if I have come to Britain, I must adapt, and I will try to.

My grandparents bowed to the Americans and sought to learn from them. My parents sought to be them.

I grew up around Vietnamese refugees, around people who don't speak English as a first language.

I came to this country when I was 13 years old, I couldn't really speak English, and I had an accent.

We are American at puberty. We die French.

If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind.

Massive immigration brings with it cultures that are sometimes in contradiction with our values.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.