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«A culture of diversity can be ours. Just as the pen is mightier than the sword, so too are appeals to values -- religious values, United Nations Charter values -- more forceful than calls to arms». «The United Nations is a tapestry, not only of suits and saris, but of clerics’collars, nuns’habits and lamas’robes -- of mitres, skullcaps and yarmulkes...». «There is a basic affinity between the teachings of the great religions of the world and the values enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations». «Religions may manifest themselves in widely varying practices and belief systems; the United Nations may display the outward signs of secular pursuits; but at heart we are dealing with universal values». |
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