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 Pluralism means not only accepting, but embracing human difference.[Pluralism] sees the world’s variety as a blessing rather than a burden, regarding encounters with the “Other” as opportunities rather than as threats. Pluralism does not mean homogenization – denying what is different to seek superficial accommodation. To the contrary, pluralism respects the role of individual identity in building a richer world. |
His Highness the Aga Khan, June 2009
Ismailimail 
Wow! That quote reminds me of the speech His Highness made at the University of Toronto, where he quoted a former Prime Minister of Canada, Liberal Lester B. Pearson:
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REF – http://www.akdn.org/Content/598
In 1957, the year I became Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was a 60 year-old statesman who, two years earlier, in a book entitled Democracy in World Politics, had written:
The prescient writer, whom some of you will recognise as a distinguished alumnus and former teacher at this great institution, went on to lead this country as its fourteenth Prime Minister: Lester B. Pearson.
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