America is not a melting pot. It is a sizzling cauldron.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, provided they have satisfactorily filled out forms 3584-A through 3597-Q.

Diversity might be the hardest thing for a society to live with, and perhaps the most dangerous thing for a society to be without.

A foreigner is an individual who is considered either comic or sinister. When the victim of a disaster - preferably natural but sometimes political -the foreigner may also be pitied from a distance for a short period of time.

Racism is the snobbery of the poor.

It is very difficult now in South Africa to find anyone who ever supported apartheid.

Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for the minimum of reason.

The most certain test by which we judge whether a country is really free is the amount of security enjoyed by minorities.

I don't care if you think I'm racist. I just want you to think I'm thin.