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.
AGA KHAN IVWe cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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 proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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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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