Multicultural Quotes

• I love food, all types of food. I love Korean food, Japanese, Italian, French. In Australia, we don't have a distinctive Australian food, so we have food from everywhere all around the world. We're very multicultural, so we grew up with lots of different types of food.

  Hugh Jackman

  Italian, Korean Food, Australia Day

  As quoted in "Hugh Jackman Calls Daughter "White Foods Girl", OK Magazine, June 2, 2011.

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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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• My dream would be a multicultural society, one that is diverse and where every man, woman and child are treated equally. I dream of a world where all people of all races work together in harmony.

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Children, Men

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• This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

  Angela Merkel

  Sides, Approach

  "Europe must move beyond mere tolerance" by Slavoj Žižek, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2011.

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• We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Motivational, Respect

  Speech at St. Louis, 22 Mar. 1964, in St Louis Post-Dispatch 23 Mar. 1964

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• What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense.

  Catharine MacKinnon

  Giving, Males, Defense

  Catharine A. MacKinnon (2007). “Are Women Human?”, p.54, Harvard University Press

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• Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

  Harold Bloom

  Language, Stage, Feels

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• I love New York. I love the multicultural vibe here. Los Angeles doesn't inspire me in any way. Everyone is in the same industry, yet you feel very isolated.

  Neve Campbell

  New York, Inspire, Way

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• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  Zadie Smith

  Cynical, Marketing, Quirky

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• I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist. And my reality is that we live in a multifaceted, multicultural world. And maybe once we stop labeling ourselves, then maybe everyone else will.

  Octavia Spencer

  Reality, World, Realist

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  I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Children

  Speech at Civil Rights March,Washington, D.C., 28 Aug. 1963

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Trying, Connections

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• Fortunately, the time has long passed when people liked to regard the United States as some kind of melting pot, taking men and women from every part of the world and converting them into standardized, homogenized Americans. We are, I think, much more mature and wise today. Just as we welcome a world of diversity, so we glory in an America of diversity -- an America all the richer for the many different and distinctive strands of which it is woven.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wise, Men, Thinking

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• There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Fifty, Rooms

  Speech in Saratoga, 19 July 1918, in Roosevelt Policy (1919) vol. 3, p. 1079

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• This (multicultural) approach has failed, utterly failed.

  Angela Merkel

  Approach

  "Merkel says German multiculturalism has failed" by Sabine Siebold, uk.reuters.com. October 16, 2010.

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• If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.

  Voltaire

  Peace, Cutting, Two

  Voltaire (2016). “Treatise on Toleration”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Intelligent, White, Black

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• America is White and Black and Latino and Asian. America is mixed. America is immigrants.

  Jose Antonio Vargas

  White, America, Black

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• A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

  Satoshi Kanazawa

  Multicultural Society, Logical, Impossibility

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• We are going forward with the idea of a multicultural , a multinational state, trying to live in unity, at the same time respecting our diversity...But we need to all come together so we can live united.

  Evo Morales

  Respect, Ideas, Diversity

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• In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.

  Ruth Benedict

  Race, Diversity, Brotherhood

  Ruth Benedict (1945). “Race: Science and Politics”, Viking Adult

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• Criminality is always the result of poverty.

  Jacob Zuma

  Poverty, Results, Apartheid

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• In a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.

  Randa Abdel-Fattah

  Reality, Multicultural Society, Diverse Society

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• We are a multicultural country - always have been, and to our credit, always will be. It is something that we should be very proud of and embrace.

  Cheech Marin

  Country, Credit, Proud

  "English Only! Part 2" by Cheech Marin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 29, 2012.

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