Showing posts with label The Dignity of Difference. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Dignity of Difference. Show all posts

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Peace & Religion


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Peace involves a profound crisis of identity. The boundaries of self and other, friend and foe, must be redrawn. … If faith is enlisted in the cause of war, there must be an equal and opposite counter-voice in the name of peace. If religion is not part of solution, it will certainly be part of the problem.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Conversation


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The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations