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.
AGA KHAN IVThis means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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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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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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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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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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