The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
AGA KHAN IVWe cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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The 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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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