Quotes about Pluralism

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...

I believe that pluralistic secularism, in the long run, is a more deadly poison than straightforward persecution.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

We never had money but it was never a problem. The spirit of comradeship, the commitment to gender equality, social justice and a celebration of pluralism and India's composite culture provided the glue that kept us joyous and closely bonded.

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

As a Christian, I am not the least bit offended by the beliefs of Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, and so forth. In fact, I am delighted to know that they believe in something that is more likely to make them into a reasonable human being, as long as they don't allow the religion to be distorted by those seeking power and wealth.

At least for a moment we all saw, I think, that the danger of pluralism is that it becomes factionalism, and that if factions grind their separate axes too vociferously, something mutual, precious, and human is in danger of being drowned out and lost.