Quotes about Integration

The lack of belongingness causes various undesirable effects, including a decrease in the levels of health, happiness, and adjustment.1

Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.

People want to come home to the church of their childhood without having to leave their adult selves behind.

Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him.

What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism…. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of continuing to be a nation at all would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

Put simply, innovative thinkers connect fields, problems, or ideas that others find unrelated.

The truth is that I need the stimulus of other people. Alone, over my dead fire, I tend to see the thin places in my own stories. The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely, imagining. He would not integrate, as I do. He would not have this devastating sense of grey ashes in a burnt-out grate.

I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.

Hell ultimately is separation from God—not only separation from all that is good but also integration with all that is evil.