Multiculturalism Quotes

• 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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• The establishment of democracy on the American continent was scarcely as radical a break with the past as was the necessity, which Americans faced, of broadening this concept to include black men.

  James A. Baldwin

  Past, Men, Black

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• What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.

  Thomas Sowell

  Western Culture, World, Blame

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• We need multiculturalism, respect for diversity, tolerance, respect for diverse faiths.

  Manmohan Singh

  Diversity, Tolerance, Needs

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• Multiculturalism is based on the lie that all cultures are morally equal.

  Michael Barone

  Lying, Culture, Equal

  "Cultures aren't equal". townhall.com. August 8, 2005.

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• Multiculturalism is social poison. Toleration of intolerance isn't sophistication. It's suicide.

  Jack Kelly

  Suicide, Poison, Intolerance

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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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• Multiculturalism is a good reminder that when standards are relative, there are no standards at all.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Reminders, Standards, Relative

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• The multiculturalism movement must be unmasked for the fraud that it is. There are superior cultures, and ours is one of them.

  Mitt Romney

  Culture, Movement, Fraud

  Mitt Romney (2010). “No Apology: The Case for American Greatness”, p.264, Macmillan

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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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• The problem with multiculturalism is it's kind of arrogant. The arrogance is the assumption that everyone will buy into our values, because they have to be Superior. What is different about Islam is it's not just a type of food you ate or the way you dress, it's a total system of life driven by values...

  Mark Durie

  Arrogance, Islam, Dresses

  "Fear of Islam". SBS Insight, www.sbs.com.au. November 2, 2010.

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• Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

  Edwin A. Locke

  Islamic, Political, Western Culture

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• If you try to discuss multiculturalism in the UK you're labelled a racist. But here we're still free to talk, and I say multicultural society doesn't work. We're not living closer, we're living apart.

  Pim Fortuyn

  Multicultural Society, Trying, Racist

  "Holland's high-camp hero of new politics". www.telegraph.co.uk. May 4, 2002.

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• Europe's experiment with multiculturalism, or the side-by-side existence of different cultures, has failed throughout the continent. Integration requires a minimum basis of shared values, that is, a culture of mutual tolerance and respect - in other words, what constitutes the heart of European culture.

  Walter Kasper

  Heart, Europe, Tolerance

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

  Rich Lowry

  Suicide, Logic, Ideology

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• Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

  John Sentamu

  Pain, Struggle, Other Cultures

  "Reclaiming the English tradition" by Francis Sedgemore, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2006.

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• Multiculturalism is a campaign to lower America's moral status by defining the American experience is terms of myriad repressionsand their victims. By rewriting history, and by using name calling ("Racist! Sexist! Homophobe!") to inhibit debate, multiculturalists cultivate grievances, self pity and claims to entitlements arising from victimization.

  George Will

  Self, Names, America

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• Unlike multiculturalism, cultural pluralism doesn't just mean diversity but also togetherness - primarily the understanding of the rules of the game - the European values structure.

  Bassam Tibi

  Mean, Games, Diversity

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The lax multiculturalism that urges Americans to accept the unacceptable from their fellow citizens is one of this nation's greatest vulnerabilities in the war on terror.

  Richard Perle

  War, Citizens, Lax

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.82, Random House

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• Multiculturalism is only in the West. We are absorbing a large number of Muslims in the west and at the same time the Christians and the Jews and other minorities are fleeing the Middle East, churches are being burnt, nobody is talking about it. Where are the religious freedom of the minorities.

  Mark Durie

  Christian, Religious, Talking

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• The same failure of liberalism is evident in Western Europe, where the dogma of multiculturalism has left a secular Europe very slow to address the looming problem of religious extremism among its immigrants. The people who speak most sensibly about the threat that Islam poses to Europe are actually fascists. To say that this does not bode well for liberalism is an understatement: It does not bode well for the future of civilization.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Europe, Civilization

  "The End Of Liberalism?" by Sam Harris, samharris.org. September 19, 2006.

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• I just want to say that the multiculturalism - and especially the cultural relativism which is even worse than multiculturalism, the concept that all cultures are equal - is the worst recipe for any society.

  Geert Wilders

  Culture, Recipes, Cultural Relativism

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

  Shirley Chisholm

  Class, Justice, Together

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• Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.

  Linda Chavez

  Tolerance, Population, Literature

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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