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Letter "M" » melting pot
«We have never been a melting pot. The fact is we are more like a tossed salad. We are green, some of us are oily and there's a little vinegar injected when you get up to Ottawa.»
Author: Arnold Edinborough
| Keywords:
inject, injected, injecting, injects, melting, melting pot, oily, Ottawa, salad, tossed, tossed salad, vinegar
«Here the melting-pot stands open ? if you're willing to get bleached first.»
Author: Buffy Sainte-Marie
(Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
bleach, bleached, bleaches, melting pot
«America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!»
Author: Israel Zangwill
(Writer)
| Keywords:
crucible, crucibles, forming, melting pot, races, The Crucible
«We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.»
«This Melting Pot of ours absorbs the second generation over a flame so high that the first is left encrusted on the rim.»
«Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.»
Author: John V. Lindsay
| Keywords:
casserole, chafing, chafing dish, charcoal, dish, grill, grilled, melting, melting pot, New York City, pot
«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.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
American state, American Woman, America Today, converting, distinctive, diversities, diversity, fortunately, homogenized, homogenizing, liked, mature, melting, melting pot, passed, pot, richer, standardized, stranded, strands, The Strand, welcome, woven
«I hear that melting-pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.»
Author: Jesse Jackson
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader, Politician)
| Keywords:
melted, melting, melting pot, pot
«Once the visitor was told rather repetitively that this city was the melting pot; never before in history had so many people of such varied languages, customs, colors and culinary habits lived so amicably together. Although New York remains peaceful by most standards, this self-congratulation is now less often heard, since it was discovered some years ago that racial harmony depended unduly on the willingness of the blacks (and latterly the Puerto Ricans) to do for the other races the meanest jobs at the lowest wages and then to return to live by themselves in the worst slums.»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith
| Keywords:
amicably, Black race, congratulation, culinary, customs, depended, languages, latterly, meanest, melting pot, Puerto, Puerto Rican, races, racial, repetitively, slum, slums, The Blacks, unduly, varied, visitor, wages, willingness
«Only in the case of the Negro has the melting pot failed to bring a minority into the full stream of American life»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
African American,
Minority
| Keywords:
melting pot, Negro
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