“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.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingHumansPersonsStatesHuman BeingsDutyConnectionsImportanceMulticultural Author:Paulo Coelho
“Criminality is always the result of poverty.” ResultsPovertyApartheidMulticulturalCriminalityCrime Rates Author:Jacob Zuma
“I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.” WayChildhoodGrewGrew UpEnglandNostalgiaBritainMulticultural Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“A lot of the public responses are based on the prejudices and ignorance, they've been inherited from previous generations. California has always been a multicultural state, but the thing is, you've got to open your eyes and people in general need to get over their own prejudices.” PeopleNeedsStatesEyeGenerationsIgnorancePrejudiceResponseCaliforniaGet OverMulticulturalPrevious Generations Author:Luis Valdez
“What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did so much to raise living standards and improve conditions for workers worldwide. We were a leader in extending to women the right to vote. We were barely a nation when we set the bar for bravery and sacrifice by common soldiers in foreign wars. We grew up out of racism and misogyny and homophobia to become a mostly tolerant, successful multicultural society. We did these great things because we know we are in it together. It is our core value as Australians.” KnowsWorldWayWarTogetherValuesNationsLeadershipCommonSecretLeaderRolesSuccessfulEnvironmentSacrificeConditionsGrewGrew UpRacismStandardsVoteBraveryRaisesWorkersSoldierCoreBarsGreat ThingsMisogynyHomophobiaBallotsExtendingRight To VoteMulticulturalCore ValuesLeading The WayMulticultural Society Author:Geraldine Brooks
“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.” IfsTwoWould BePeaceCuttingDangerEnglandThirtyThroatMulticulturalismDespotismMulticulturalPeace And Happiness Book:Treatise on Toleration Source: Treatise on Toleration
“Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake over and over again. It's really uncanny how we build these beautiful multicultural edifices and then allow this switch to be flipped and everybody goes, 'Oh, the other, get them out of here.” HumansKindSeemsBeautifulMistakePersonalityGenesSusceptibleMulticulturalEdificeUncannyFlippedMutantsHuman Personality Author:Geraldine Brooks
“Australia has an increasingly multicultural society.” AustraliaMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:Julie Bishop
“The country has already become multicultural. Given immigration trends, it will only grow more diverse, and these new Americans want to share in their country's identity.” WantCountryGivenGrowsShareIdentityImmigrationTrendsDiverseMulticultural Author:Tom Gjelten
“Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.” TryingDifferentKidsSchoolFeltGrowing UpGrowingEqualApproachMulticultural Author:Priscilla Ahn
“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.” WorldWayFactsRoundsMarketingStatementsSellingArtisticFeaturesPlotDevicesCynicalGrapesQuirkyMulticulturalPloyWorld Is Round Author:Zadie Smith
“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.” BlackWhiteIntelligentDiscriminationFranceMinistersVisibleMinoritiesCompetentMulticulturalImbeciles Author:Patrick Gaubert
“The minute that you make the discussion in the room more well-rounded, multicultural, and of course having differences in gender, you're going to have a different approach.” WellsDifferentCoursesDifferencesRoomsMinutesApproachGenderDiscussionMulticulturalWell RoundedDifferent Approach Author:Cara Santa Maria
“I love that Toronto is demonstrating that a big, highly diverse, multicultural city can actually work and work well, if its residents have the attitude of Torontonians.” IfsWellsBigsCitiesAttitudeDiverseResidentsTorontoMulticulturalDemonstrating Author:Roger Martin
“The old boy network is still too strong in Canadian business. A visit to the Toronto clubs at lunch stands in about as great a contrast to the multicultural, multiracial subway underneath as can be humanly imagined. This is not healthy.” StillsStrongBoysHealthyClubsLunchContrastSubwayTorontoMulticulturalMultiracial Author:Bob Rae
“We know that a large majority of the Australian society is extremely comfortable with a multicultural society, that we accept that living in a democracy means having a freedom to practise your religion within the limits of the law.” KnowsMeanLawAcceptingDemocracyLimitsComfortableMajorityAustralianMulticulturalPractiseMulticultural Society Author:Tim Soutphommasane
“Fleeing persecution is not a crime. And we do not seek to pander to a noisy, tiny minority who will never embrace modern multicultural Australia. But there are important truths we must face. There is a history and a reality that we cannot ignore. The challenge before us is real, the questions we grapple with as elemental as life and death.” ImportantRealRealityFacesChallengesModernCrimeEmbraceTinyLife And DeathMinoritiesAustraliaPersecutionNoisyMulticulturalElementalsFleeing Author:Bill Shorten
“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.” WorldDifferentGrewTypeGrew UpAround The WorldAustraliaItalianAustralianKoreanDistinctiveMulticulturalFood LoveI Love FoodAustralia DayKorean Food Author:Hugh Jackman
“When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read my books because they share the same international aesthetic that I'm into and have been into for a long time. And it's multicultural.” PeopleLongHas BeensBookCountryStatesUnitedTalkingUnited StatesShareLong TimeInternationalLatinAestheticMulticulturalAfros Author:Ishmael Reed
“Photography can still be used to champion activism and change. I believe this, even while standing in the cool winds of postmodernism... Postmodernism looked radical, but it wasn't. As a movement it was profoundly liberal and became a victim of itself. Precisely at this historical moment, when multicultural democracy is the order of the day, photography can be used as a powerful weapon toward instituting political and cultural change. I for one will continue to work toward this end.” BelieveStillsEndsMomentsPoliticalUsedOrderI BelievePowerfulDemocracyMovementWindPhotographyWeaponsStandingVictimHistoricalActivismRadicalChampionPostmodernismMulticulturalPowerful WeaponsCultural Change Author:Carrie Mae Weems
“I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.” PeopleKnowsYearsMindWellsAgeBlackWhiteMediaRootsThirtyNativeFortyAssociationNative AmericanIgnoredAsianHispanicMulticulturalAsian American Author:Ishmael Reed
“The Western front is the important one in this war - the intersection between Islam and a liberal democratic tradition so mired in self-loathing it would rather destroy our civilization just to demonstrate its multicultural bona fides.” ImportantWarSelfFrontsCivilizationTraditionDemocraticIslamWesternLoathingMulticulturalSelf LoathingIntersections Author:Mark Steyn
“There's the new America for you. Bring them in by the millions. Bring in 10 million more from Africa. Bring them in with AIDS. Show how multicultural you are. They can't reason, but bring them in with a machete in their head. Go ahead. Bring them in with machetes in their mind.” MindReasonShowsAmericaMillionsAidsMulticulturalMachetes Author:Michael Savage
“Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.” FirstsBlackPresidentFiguresBarackPresidentialHawaiiPacificMulticulturalMultiracialLandmarks Author:Dinesh Sharma
“I always thought books were just the canon, things I couldn't identify with. And then I was introduced to really amazing multicultural literature - it was all things I was trying to do unsuccessfully in my poetry. It really just changed everything. I was introduced to authors like Sandra Cisneros, Gabriel García Márquez, Junot Díaz, and a lot of African American literature, as well.” TryingWellsBookLiteratureChangedAll ThingsAfrican AmericanMulticulturalGabrielAmerican LiteratureCanonReally Amazing Author:Matt de la Pena
“So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.” WorldPersonsEndsFactsSpeakLanguageCollegeBecomingOppositesNativeApologizingMulticulturalKnowledge Of The WorldNative Language Author:Richard Rodriguez
“There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.” ThinkingKnowsKindBlackWhiteCitiesNew YorkIdentityPerceptionI RealizedBreadItalianMulticulturalMidwestWhite BreadEthnic Identity Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I want to engage people in an honest, enlightened, and provocative conversation about the nature of erotic desire and the intricacies of intimacy and sexuality. The object of my game is to bring nonjudgmental, multicultural understanding to the challenges and choices of modern relationships.” PeopleWantDesireChoicesGamesUnderstandingChallengesModernHonestObjectsConversationSexualityIntimacyEnlightenedEroticProvocativeMulticulturalIntricacy Author:Esther Perel
“I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.” I CanDifferentCountryWholeEasyAnswersIranContrastLayersControversyWrapsControversialMulticultural Author:Jason Rezaian
“I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.” BelieveEndsStatesI BelieveUnitedUnited StatesEuropeMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:Manmohan Singh
“India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.” PeopleBelieveTogetherI BelieveDemocracyLessonsIndiaSalvationSeekingBillionsExperimentsWorking TogetherDiversePersuasionFrameworkMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:Manmohan Singh
“I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.” BelieveI BelieveMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:Manmohan Singh
“I would not say Denmark is a multicultural country, but more people live here now who have different roots, backgrounds and religions, more than 30 years ago. This also applies to religions.” PeopleYearsDifferentCountryYears AgoRootsBackgroundsMulticulturalDenmark Author:Margrethe II of Denmark
“My parents, the effect that [Frank Sinatra] had on the Italian community, in terms of all our friends at the house were multicultural. We weren't just Italians. My dad's close friend was a black gentleman - this was back in the early 50s when Tony Bennett was reprimanded for having lunch, when he was in the military, with a black man.” MenHouseParentBlackTermCommunityEffectsMilitaryDadMy DadGentlemanItalianLunchFrankClose FriendsMulticultural Author:Robert Davi
“Speaking more than one language and living in a multicultural family and environment did not seem like anything but what it was: the world I lived in.” WorldSeemsLanguageEnvironmentMulticultural Author:Viggo Mortensen
“Though your major media kept smacking me upside the head with the word "multicultural," you goddamned Australians are the most racist bunch of people I've ever seen in my life.” PeopleMediaMajorsBunchRacistMulticultural Author:Jim Goad
“My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.” WifeMy WifeMexicanMulticultural Author:Jeremy Corbyn
“Civility isn't just some optional value in a multicultural, multistate democratic republic. Civility is the key to civilization.” ValuesKeysCivilizationDemocraticRepublicCivilityMulticulturalOptionalDemocratic Republic Author:Van Jones
“My favourite city for nightlife is Toronto, as it has such a multicultural feel, with so many different restaurants and theatres.” FeelsDifferentCitiesTheatreRestaurantsFavouriteTorontoMulticulturalNightlifeFavourite City Author:Chris Hadfield
“I never would like to be a country that is that multicultural that, for instance, the Islamic values become more dominant. We should not do that. We should stop that.” ShouldCountryValuesInstanceIslamicDominantMulticultural Author:Geert Wilders
“That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied to the sensibility of the college-educated, multicultural crowd, of which I'm a part, which has created a sense where it's OK to say, "All the red state voters are stupid, they're all dummies, they're all racist, they're all backwards mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging ..." all that stuff. And that kind of elitism, which is first of all not true, is also not fair. It's also dumb strategy.” FirstsKindStatesAmericaCertainStuffResultsPartyStupidCollegeAmountMouthsRedFairsStrategyDemocraticCrowdsEducatedDumbBreathingRacistVotersTiedSensibilityBackwardsCalamityDemocratic PartyNot FairMulticulturalElitismKnucklesDummy Author:Van Jones
“Before the United States, there wasn't really anyplace anybody could go. They had to seek refuge in other ways. After the United States was founded, it became the place you go, and the people who came assimilated into a single culture that was shared in a way. Everything the left claims to want is exactly what this country started out doing. It was multicultural, we had the Italians, we had the Irish, we had everybody.” PeopleWayWantCountryStatesCultureLeftUnitedUnited StatesClaimsRefugeMulticulturalPlaces You Go Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.” PeopleThinkingFactsProudBuiltFoundationNew ZealandMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:John Key
“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.” ThinkingShouldYearsMindKindMadeCountryStatesLastsNationsDifficultDestinyEasierCreatingIdealsEnglandMade ItPostsThirtyThirty YearsCommonwealthMulticulturalElitistMulticultural Society Author:Irvine Welsh
“What I think it's important to recognize in today's world is that all of our societies are multiethnic, multi-religious and multicultural. And that is a positive thing. That's a richness, and also strength. But we also have to recognize that, for those societies to be harmonious, there is a lot of the investment that needs to be made in social cohesion and inclusivity. But the important thing to recognize, and particularly Europe, most of the terrorist attacks are not done by people that came from the outside. They are homegrown.” PeopleThinkingWorldImportantDoneInvestmentTerroristMulticultural Author:Antonio Guterres
“We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.” LifeWisdomMotivationalTogetherExistenceHistoryLearningGreatnessBrotherFoolKingsDiversityRacismRespectLaborPhilosophicalUnityEqualityCaringBrilliantToleranceCivil RightsLive LifeMy BrotherIslamicSelf RespectPearls Of WisdomBrotherhoodSolidarityFoolishnessTogethernessRespecting OthersTeam BuildingPeace And JusticeLove And RespectMulticulturalUnity In DiversityAntithesisGreat RespectLiving TogetherLabor DayBeing TogetherPerishingLove RespectRepublic DayFools And WiseWorld ReligionsI Have A Dream SpeechKings SpeechKings And LoveLabour DayHappy Labor DayPeace And ToleranceTolerance And RespectPeace And UnityLearning From OthersCute BrotherLabour Day WeekendFunny Labor DayHuman DiversityAfrican American Civil RightsTolerance And DiversityBrotherhood And PeaceOther People's Actions Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“When I say my work is travel, that's what I'm doing. And part of being biracial and multicultural is I'm always playing with genre and genre expectations. So even if I say I'm doing straight memoir, you'll see that I'm doing weird stuff with the structure. I've got images, I've got lyrics, and I've got journalism. I really try to not get stuck in genre expectations.” TryingExpectationsStuckMemoirJournalismMulticultural Author:Faith Adiele
“London is the most multicultural, mixed race place on Earth. And I love that. I grew up in a neighborhood in London where English wasn't necessarily the first language - maybe because of that, I love to travel. Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world. I think that's partly from growing up in London. I've taken that bit with me - this ability to fit in with any culture and be fascinated and respectful with any culture all started from growing up in London.” ThinkingWorldDifferentEarthCultureLanguageAbilityGrowing UpTakenFitNeighborhoodRespectfulAirlineMulticultural Author:JJ Feild
“My goal is to become Canada's first multicultural prime minister and represent the changing face of Canada.” GoalMulticultural Author:Niki Ashton
“This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.” SidesApproachMulticultural Author:Angela Merkel