Language is a unifying instrument which binds people together. When people speak one language they become as one, they become a society.
S. I. HayakawaI believe we are being dishonest with language minority groups if we tell them they can take full part in American life without learning the English language.
S. I. HayakawaLearning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing.
S. I. HayakawaAnimals struggle with each other for food or for leadership, but they do not, like human beings, struggle with each other for thatthat stands for food or leadership: such things as our paper symbols of wealth (money, bonds, titles), badges of rank to wear on our clothes, or low-number license plates, supposed by some people to stand for social precedence. For animals the relationship in which one thing stands for something else does not appear to exist except in very rudimentary form.
S. I. Hayakawa