Quotes About Diversity

despite the clashes we have been recording—amity 'among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs… subsisted in the eighteenth century' in Punjab.

Many in the world picture a threat from what they see as a monolithic Muslim world, when in fact that world is sharply divided.

Like Guru Nanak after him, Baba Farid suggested that at a basic level a Muslim and a Hindu were the same, sharing the joy and pain of being human.

Do not repeat the tactics which have gained you one victory, but let your methods be regulated by the infinite variety of circumstances.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognise them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many.

said, "All life is…and cannot be judged good or bad.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity

Congratulate yourselves if you have done something strange and extravagant and broken the monotony of a decorous age.

All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

As to what are called the masses, and common men—there are no common men. All men are at last of a size.

The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities.

I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

A identidade se define por aquilo que diz respeito a todos e pertence a todos, o que implica essa relação de "ser o mesmo" e de manter o reconhecimento através do tempo, apesar da alteração das variáveis.

Srinagar, there was a grave of a Christian soldier from Travancore, which had the Vedic swastika and a verse from the Quran inscribed on it. There could be 'no more poignant and touching symbolof the essential oneness and unity of India'.61

the District Teachers Guild of Vizianagaram and the Central Jewish Board of Bombay

member from the United Provinces, Begum Aizaz Rasul

The Constitution of India recognizes twenty-two languages as 'official'. The most important of these is Hindi, which in one form or another is spoken by upwards of 400 million people.

The plural, inclusive, idea of India has three enemies. The best known is the notion of a Hindu Rashtra, as represented in an erratic fashion by the Bharatiya Janata Party and in a more resolute (or more bigoted) manner by the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, the Bajrang Dal and other associated organisations.

perhaps the most motley assemblage in any quarter of this orb'; to quote another, it was 'a true centre of the diverse varieties and types of mankind, far surpassing the mixed nationalities of Cairo and Constantinople'. The fifth chapter was geographical, an argument for Bombay's physical isolation, with the sea and the mountains separating it from the Marathi-speaking heartland.

Is it any great wonder', asked the writer, 'that an Indian Muslim no longer feels secure in secular India? He feels discriminated against. He feels a second-class citizen.

The blood of many a brave Tamilian, Andhra, Malayalee and Coorgi', it said, 'has soaked into the fertile soil of Kashmir and mixed with the blood of the Kashmiri patriots, cementing for ever the unity of the North and the South.

At no other time or place in human history have social conflicts been so richly diverse, so vigorously articulated, so eloquently manifest in art and literature or adressed with such directness by the political system and the media.