Quotes About Pluralism

Black, yellow, brown, and white Diversity is what makes the world seem right Diversity, Dee-verse-i-teeeeee

A well-established village in New England or the northern Middle-West could afford a town drunkard, a town atheist, and a few Democrats.

The Family of Man is more than three billion strong. It lives in more than one hundred nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise, or due process of law, or the Australian ballot.

It is beneficial for Turkish democracy that not all religious conservatives are united under one banner.

My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

I could never be a member of a single party. I want the best of all worlds, thank you.

In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.

How can you have the religion of the sovereign be the religion of the state if the sovereign belongs to many religions? And it's at that point, I think, historically, that you start to see people saying maybe the state should not associate itself with any religion. Maybe there shouldn't be any official religion.

traditional evangelicals." This group, which Green estimates at 12.6 percent of the population, comes "closest to the 'religious right' widely discussed in the media." It is overwhelmingly Republican. It is openly hostile to democratic pluralism, and it champions totalitarian policies, such as denying homosexuals the same rights as other Americans and amending the Constitution to make America a "Christian nation.

I'm Miss USA, not Miss Religion USA.

I'm half-Welsh, half-Russian. My maternal grandmother is Russian. I've very much a mongrel, which is good in a way because it makes me quite a blank canvas.

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.

A moral monopoly is the antithesis of a marketplace of ideas.

The greatness of Americans is that we are mosaic - we are diverse.

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But if they asked me 'Abdullah when will you become a true Muslim?' I would reply 'Soon, if that be the will of God— Inshallah.' If anyone asked me whether we were Hindus or Mussalmans, we would reply we were both. Nizamuddin was our umbrella against the burning sun of Muslim bigotry and the downpour of Hindu contempt.

Southeast Asia has been intimately associated and involved with four of the great universalist cultures and civilizations of the world: India, China, Islam and the West.

The fantastically wasteful prodigality of human tongues, the Babel enigman, points to a vital multiplication of mortal liberties. Each language speaks the world in its own ways. Each edifies worlds and counter-worlds in its own mode. The polyglot is a freer man.

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient.

I'm a typical mutt American. I have an Italian last name. Half-Mexican, half-Jewish.

I don't want to get rid of the typical Dutch tolerance.

A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

People think that libertarians are probably greedy and anti-social, and I'm sure some of them are. But the nice thing about it is, it's really an umbrella term that covers a lot of different people.