The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
AGA KHAN IVThe 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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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