Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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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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One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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