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.
AGA KHAN IVIt 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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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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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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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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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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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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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