Quotes about Assimilation
It is only by continuously fixing the mind for a time on some one of the lessons of faith, that the believer is gradually helped to take and thoroughly assimilate them.
— Andrew Murray
ACCIPIENT (ACCI'PIENT) n.s.[accipiens, Lat.] A receiver, perhaps sometimes used for recipient.Dict.
— Samuel Johnson
Listen, I didn't know how to make coffee when I came to the United States. Because in Colombia the maids do it.
— Sofia Vergara
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley
Some Americans need hyphens in their names, because only part of them has come over; but when the whole man has come over, heart and thought and all, the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
— Woodrow Wilson
Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner. You must be eating some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.
— Malcolm X
Why act the part of a Jew when you're Greek? Don't you know why it is that a person is called a Jew, Syrian, or Egyptian? And when we see someone hesitating between two creeds, we're accustomed to say, 'He is no Jew, but is merely acting the part.' But when he assumes the frame of mind of one who has been baptized * and has made his choice, then he really is a Jew, and is called by that name.
— Epictetus
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engrafted with a foreign stock.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.
— Claude Levi-Strauss
If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide.
— Mahatma Gandhi
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
— William McKinley