Atal Bihari Vajpayee Quotes

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.

India's pluralism is its greatest strength and its greatest example to the world.

As far as the public is concerned, India is amazingly secular.

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious and cultural freedom, to Jews, Parsis, several varieties of Christians, and Muslims.

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

I don't think it's a good thing to have Christian states, Muslim states, or any kind of ethnic states.

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.

True civility and Christianity may both flourish in a state or kingdom, notwithstanding. the permission of divers and contrary consciences, either of Jew or Gentile.

India was secular even when Muslims hadn't come here and Christians hadn't set foot on this soil. It is not as if India became secular after they came. They came with their own modes of worship, and they, too, were given a place of honor and respect. They had the freedom to worship God as per their wish and inclination.

Our society is pluralistic. We who accept the privilege of membership in that society agree to respect the people's right to live by their own religious precepts.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

God did not burden the United States with a diversity of backgrounds, ideas and religions, He blessed America with them.

Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered with tolerance, goodwill and understanding.

America is woven of many strands. I would recognize them and let it so remain. Our fate is to become one, and yet many. This is not prophecy, but description.

Neither Pagan nor Mahometan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion.

It is my will that in my empire the liberty of various creeds, after their several customs, be respected. And I declare at the same time, that I esteem alike all my subjects, to whatever religion they belong.

The pluralism of India has been the shaping force of our democracy.

A secular state can offer security to Muslims since it is compatible with acknowledging that religion is important and, that in a religiously plural environment the state does not allow believers in one religious tradition to enjoy a privileged status. All are citizens with equal rights.

We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.

The main hope of harmony in our troubled world lies rather in the plurality of our identities, which intertwine with each other and are resistant to drastic divisions

Religion is for God, and the country is for everyone.

There's no religious test in our country, and there shouldn't be. We're an open, competitive society.

Americans honor and respect each other's faith, and we honor those that choose to have no faith.

I believe in everyone staying as they are, and when you meld together, you get something more accurate and democratic.

I respect every religion.