Quotes About Pluralism

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Acceptance of dissent is the fundamental requirement of a free society.

Aussies and Enzees and black fellows and marys and Malays and Tamil and name it.

The absolutist One True Faith came out of the Dark Ages and should get sent back there. We live with varying perspectives, especially if we have to deal with people of varying cultures.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

America also stands for the melting pot. The idea of the melting pot. It was the place where people could come from anywhere and be a part of it. Such was the theory. There are lessons there for us.

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Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion.

Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.

Religious freedom does not mean freedom from religion.

Real democracy means that no group or faction or leader can impose their will, their ideology, their religion, their desires on anyone else.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Human rights are universally valid and indivisible, regardless of culture and religion.

God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.

What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.

French laicite is probably aggressive and antagonistic to the religion, but there are other models of secularism in the world where there could be reconciliation between religion and secularism.

The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Every religion, in my opinion, has something to bring, and I think we all learn from everyone that there's no right, perfect way to look at something.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

I could never say that one religion is wrong. I could never say that this person's God is wrong, I could never say that someone is wrong because they don't believe in God