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 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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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 Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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