Quotes about Assimilation

A man don't always have to change the land. He can find a way to fit in.

Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or of the other peoples, but could not speak the language of Judah.

but they mingled with the nations and adopted their customs.

As you saw the iron mixed with clay, so the peoples will mix with one another, but will not hold together any more than iron mixes with clay.

If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.

Any time you go into a new environment, you have to learn a new system, there are adjustments you have to make.

Any time you go into a new environment, you have to learn a new system, there are adjustments you have to make.

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.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Adapt to them—don't expect them to adapt to you.

It was easy to rise up in faith and heroism when we faced a clear-cut enemy. Its much harder to resist the enemy of gradualism and assimilation, much harder to maintain a passion for God when we are bogged down in the daily routine of life

It was easy to rise up in faith and heroism when we faced a clear-cut enemy. It's much harder to resist the enemy of gradualism and assimilation, much harder to maintain a passion for God when we're bogged down in the daily routine of life.