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.
AGA KHAN IVA 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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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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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