Jane Elliot Quotes

We don’t need a melting pot in this country, folks. We need a salad bowl. In a salad bowl, you put in the different things. You want the vegetables – the lettuce, the cucumbers, the onions, the green peppers – to maintain their identity. You appreciate differences.

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn’t have a prayer.

I’ve got news for you: There are going to be people other than Christians in the hereafter. What are you going to do about it? Are you not going to go?

I’m a practicing Christian – and I’m going to keep practicing till I get it right – but I don’t feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to.

Education in this country is about how to maintain the status quo and to perpetuate racism.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.