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Israel Zangwill

"America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!"

Source : The Melting-Pot act 1 (1908). This passage popularized the term melting pot in the sense of an amalgamation of peoples (the jstor database shows that an earlier usage with this meaning occurs in the American Journal of Sociology, July 1906, and a reference to public education as a "melting-pot" for immigrants appears in the Los Angeles Times, 28 June 1891). See Baudouin 1; Jimmy Carter 3; Crevecoeur 1; Ellison 2; Hayward 1; Jesse Jackson 1

Israel Zangwill

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“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”
“I never intended to be a teacher. I just like going to school and learning things.”
“He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.”
“What is good about Good Friday? Why isn't it called Bad Friday? Because out of the appallingly bad came what was inexpressibly good. And the good trumps the bad, because though the bad was temporary, the good is eternal.”
“People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk about each other's work.”
“Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.”
“The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.”

Source : "Mugabe uses UN forum to compare Blair to Mussolini" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2005.
“Extremism in defense of Liberty is no vice”

"America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!"

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