“Pluralism implies a readiness to listen to many voices – whether we agree with them or not – and a readiness to embrace a rich diversity of cultures. When our diversity divides us, the results can be tragic. But when we welcome diversity – and the debate and dissent that goes with it – we sow the seeds of stability and progress.”
Extract from Speech by Mawlana Hazar Imam at the opening ceremony of the International Press Institute’s World Congress and 54th General Assembly, Nairobi, Kenya, May 22, 2005
Ismailimail 
Here is another gem:
“Imagine what it would be like living in a world of no diversity,
a world where we were all the same colour, shape and size,
ate the same biryani, told the same jokes and combed our hair identically. Aside from the fact that my comb, sadly, serves less purpose these days, I would find a world like that quite boring!”
(Aga Khan IV, in his speech at the Ninth Award for Architecture Ceremony New Delhi, India, Saturday, November 27, 2004)
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