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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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 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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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