114 Quotes About Assimilation

One culture was not enough for me, I had to feel all the cultures of the world rushing through my veins filling up every molecule in my body - it was a burning desire - as urgent as the thirst of a person who hasn't had water for months. Hence, I assimilated as many cultures as possible and made them one with my existence.

A scholar came to me the other day and asked - how can I be a human being? I replied - by living as nothing and calling everyone our own.

It’s a great honor, m’ijo. We know that. I’m sure everyone in Ysleta is proud of you. But this is who you are," she said, for a moment scanning the dark night air and the empty street. A cricket chirped in the darkness. "God help you when you go to this ‘Havid.’ You will be so far away from us, from everything you know. You will be alone. What if something happens to you? Who’s going to help you? But you always wanted to be alone; you were always so independent, so stubborn.""Like you.

No goodness, no peace - no goodness, no assimilation – no goodness, no justice.

The heart of a society must be big enough to fill its chest.

Wholeness means liberty, not external liberty, but internal liberty, liberty from prejudice, liberty from discrimination, liberty from bigotry, liberty from duality or separatism. Wholeness is oneness and oneness breeds harmony.

Emancipation lies in losing the I in Us.

The question of the stranger in a society which estranges everybody from it--while forcing everybody to assimilate their own alienation--takes cover under dubious and sinister masks.

He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.