These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
AGA KHAN IVThe Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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