When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
Eboo PatelRead
To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism
Interpretation
What this quote means
Embracing and defending diverse perspectives is essential for a pluralistic society.
Eboo Patel's quote emphasizes the importance of recognizing and valuing different cultural traditions while engaging in dialogue and support for diverse communities. Pluralism is about understanding and defending the rights of others not in spite of one's own beliefs and heritage, but as an integral part of them, promoting coexistence and mutual respect in society.
Themes
PluralismDiversityTraditionCommunityUnderstanding
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech on community service, one might say, 'To see the other side, to defend another people, is the heart of pluralism.'
More from Eboo Patel
All quotes βSimilar quotes
Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one.
SocratesRead
I could not help but think that somewhere along the way we had missed what was radical about our faith and replaced it with what is comfortable.
David PlattRead
It is one of the sternest judgments confronting a human being after death that insofar as he is himself evil, he can see only what resembles himself because he can reproduce in his own being only the physiognomy of other evil people.
Rudolf SteinerRead
It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
George WhitefieldRead
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
Samuel ButlerRead
Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is around us, for it is everywhere; and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to gaurd us; and if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognize our innocence, and God waits ony a speration of spirit from flesh to crown us with a full reward.
Charlotte BronteRead