Multicultural Quotes - Page 2

• Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

  Jacob Zuma

  Country, Democracy, Fundamentals

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• Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Justice, Diversity

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• A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.

  Herodotus

  Years, Curiosity, Easier

  Source: keeperofthesnails.blogspot.co.uk

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• Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.

  Van Jones

  Keys, Civilization, Republic

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I feel very fortunate that I was raised in a multicultural family, and it came through food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Raised, Feels, Fortunate

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• Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.

  Elinor Gadon

  Adventure, Land, Diversity

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• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Giving, Childhood, Intuition

  "Carlos Ghosn: In The Driver’s Seat". Interview with Richard M. Smith, www.newsweek.com. June 20, 2008.

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• It's the UK: We have to get beyond that imperialist state. I think that kind of imperialist, hierarchical, elitist state has made it easier to basically shaft everybody in the country, which it's been doing for the last thirty years. It has also sort of made it more difficult for England to fulfill its destiny, which in my mind is creating a multi-ethnic, multicultural society that is truly at the head of that post-imperial commonwealth ideal. I think that that's what England should be and that that's the kind of nation we should be.

  Irvine Welsh

  Country, Destiny, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We live in the most multicultural, multiracial, multiethnic America ever, and I get the sense that because of that reality so many of us are turning nativist.

  Max Lucado

  Reality, America, Multiracial

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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• Pat Buchanan... was fired by MSNBC for doing nothing more than voicing his rock-solid conservative thoughts on the otherwise failing network... The real message of the left is intolerance, zealotry, bigotry and hate. The left has no use for the First Amendment or the rest of the Constitution unless it fits their multicultural, euro-socialist agenda, which is failing all across Europe and everywhere it is practiced.

  Ted Nugent

  Real, Hate, Rocks

  Washington Times, February 20, 2012.

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• [There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and was, as a rule, interesting in none of them.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Interesting, Boards, News

  Robert Charles Wilson (2007). “Axis”, p.40, Macmillan

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• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Retirement, Home, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• My own take on it is that government will never adequately represent every person in the country. It can't. It's not possible. It's a multicultural, multifaceted society in which we live. The country, I think, thrives because it's willing to embrace many ideas at the same time, but once a decision is made you will be unpopular with many people. The business of our political leaders is to go ahead and make a decision and let the chips fall where they may. That's a very hard thing to do.

  Kelsey Grammer

  Country, Fall, Thinking

  "Kelsey Grammer Gets Beastly About X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• Writers and scholars have emerged in recent times (some familiar, some new) to continue to challenge the notion of a literature that encompasses the world - and reaffirms our existence in it. It is a multicultural vision that embraces and includes our shrinking universe; it is a multicultural vision that the white man fears and a vision that the rest of us can celebrate.

  Jessica Hagedorn

  Men, White Man, Challenges

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• One of the great things about Sydney is that it has a great acceptance of everyone and everything. It's an incredibly tolerant city, a city with a huge multicultural basis.

  Baz Luhrmann

  Acceptance, Cities, Great Things

  The Scene interview, www.cnn.com. January 9, 2007.

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• I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real issue that the conventional churches face - that the people who are really driving their revival and success believe in an old-time religion which, in my view, is incompatible with a modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural society.

  Trevor Phillips

  Real, Believe, Thinking

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• If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.

  Andrew Rannells

  Casting, Reason, Seems

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• I've driven all through America and I know there are a lot of clever people between the coasts. But they have a slightly old-fashioned view of the world. Whereas New York is one of the most multicultural, multiracial, tolerant places on Earth.

  Robbie Coltraine

  New York, Clever, Views

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• We might be shifting away from a Eurocentric view of the United States into something that's much more multicultural, multinational, and Chinese food is just one slice of that.

  Jennifer Lee

  Views, Chinese, Shifting

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• I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

  Sarah Shahi

  Tools, World, Able

  "‘Fairly Legal’ Star Sarah Shahi Kisses & Tells About Show’s 2nd Season" by Rosy Cordero, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2012.

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• I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.

  Wyclef Jean

  America, People, Haiti

  Interview with Ben Clymer, www.askmen.com.

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• Today's children are living a childhood of firsts. They are the first daycare generation; the first truly multicultural generation; the first generation to grow up in the electronic bubble, the environment defined by computers and new forms of television; the first post-sexual revolution generation; the first generation for which nature is more abstraction than reality; the first generation to grow up in new kinds of dispersed, deconcentrated cities, not quite urban, rural, or suburban.

  Richard Louv

  Change, Children, Growing Up

  Richard Louv (1990). “Childhood's Future”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Toronto is a very multicultural city, a place of immigrants, like my parents.

  Melanie Fiona

  Cities, Parent, Toronto

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• Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Multicultural Society, Land, Differences

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