Melting Quotes

• I think the main fight is to dissuade Americans from what the secularists are trying to persuade them to be true: that the separation of church and state means that the government cannot favor religion over nonreligion.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Fighting, Thinking

  "Scalia Defends Keeping God, Religion in Public Square" by Valerie Richardson, www.washingtontimes.com. October 01, 2014.

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• Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Nature, Giving

  FaceBook post by Camille Paglia from Nov 13, 2013

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• 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

  Believe, Coward, Way

  Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009

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• Day by day, case by case, the Supreme Court is busy designing a Constitution for a country I do not recognize.

  Antonin Scalia

  Country, Design, Constitution

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• America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

  Barbara Mikulski

  America, Pot, Cauldrons

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• I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

  George Catlin

  Men, Past, Race

  George Catlin (1857). “Illustrations of the Manners, Customs, and Condition of the North American Indians: With Letters and Notes Written During Eight Years of Travel and Adventure Among the Wildest and Most Remarkable Tribes Now Existing ; with 360 Engravings, from the Author's Original Paintings”, p.16

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• Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

  Martin Sheen

  Party, Political, Environmental

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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

  Israel Zangwill

  Race, Europe, America

  The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1

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• Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce. They are bought and sold. You can hire them by the year or by the hour. The only thing in the world not for sale is character.

  Antonin Scalia

  Teaching, Learning, Character

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• I have the utmost respect for those who have come to this country legally and have contributed to the great melting pot that is America today. But those who have crossed our borders illegally have broken the law and the law ought to be enforced.

  Bob Ney

  Country, Law, America

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• I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.

  Philip Glass

  Travel, Mean, America

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• I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

  Jesse Jackson

  Justice, Diversity, Political

  Quoted in Playboy, Nov. 1969

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• God assumed from the beginning that the wise of the world would view Christians as fools...and He has not been disappointed....If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

  Antonin Scalia

  God, Christian, Wise

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• 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

  Writing, People, Doe

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• Race wasn't an issue. My family was French, but Yorkville was a melting pot of races and cultures.

  Bob Cousy

  Basketball, Race, Issues

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• We don't need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables — the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers — to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

  Jane Elliott

  Country, Vegetables, Differences

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• I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

  Placido Domingo

  Color, Voice, Singing

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• Everyone should be proud of who they are and where they come from because America is a big melting pot of diverse ethnicities. It's great to be part of this wonderful country.

  Rima Fakih

  Country, Ethnicity, America

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• Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Minorities, Pot, Cases

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• You, the Spirit of the Settlement! ... Not understand that America is God's crucible, the great melting-pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here, you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, with your fifty languages and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries.

  Israel Zangwill

  Thinking, Islands, Race

  Israel Zangwill (2015). “The Melting Pot”, p.38, Israel Zangwill

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• Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.

  Leon Panetta

  Sea, Relief, Rising

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• Like a piece of ice on a hot stove the poem must ride on its own melting.

  Robert Frost

  Art, Philosophy, Writing

  Collected Poems (1939) "Figure a Poem Makes"

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• A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.

  Antonin Scalia

  Mean, Rights, Liberty

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• The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

  Jimmy Swaggart

  Religious, Court Judges, Law Courts

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