Melting Pot – Quotes

Jazz has always been

Jazz has always been a melting pot of influences and I plan to incorporate them all. Esperanza Spalding

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. Ernest Istook

I live in Brooklyn,

I live in Brooklyn, New York. It is a melting pot of cultures and people. I walk down the street, and there is art on the buildings and people congregating who have been neighbors for years and events and music and freedom. Erin Willett

Though this nation has

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards Eric Holder

We are able to

We are able to choose what we want – you don’t have to accept one thing from one tradition. It’s a melting pot. Elizabeth Lesser

In the melting pot

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it’s single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics. Eliot Spitzer

Since the 1960s, we

Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be subordinated to a larger ideology or social amalgam which is \”America.\” This concept obviously did not work, because paradoxically America encourages a politics of contestation. Edward Said

Of course this is

Of course this is Vegas and it is the melting pot for all over the world, but people from all over the world know Donny and Marie. It is amazing. I have been in the business a long time to realize careers can be fleeting. Five years is a long career nowadays for some people, … Read more

The thing I love

The thing I love about Vegas is that it’s a melting pot. It’s like working Ellis Island. Don Rickles

Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city,

Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates. David Denby