Eboo Patel famous quotes

04-08-2025

The question of how people orient around religion differently, or interact with one another, whether that be based on conflict or cooperation, will be one of the most engaging questions of the 21st century.
-- Eboo Patel

#People #Cooperation #Conflict
Show me a religion that doesn't care about compassion. Show me a religion that doesn't care about stewardship of the environment. Show me a religion that doesn't care about hospitality.
-- Eboo Patel

#Compassion #Care #Stewardship
Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. 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 Patel

#Writing #Sri Lanka #Office
We have to build bridges that are stronger than the bombs that other people might throw
-- Eboo Patel

#Bridges #People #Stronger
Finding Mecca in America weaves social theory and concrete ethnography into a significant contribution on Muslims in the United States, illuminating broader questions about the integration of minority and immigrant groups along the way. This is an important work and a joy to read.
-- Eboo Patel

#America #Joy #Important
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 Patel

#Writing #People #Together
To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism
-- Eboo Patel

#Heart #People #Pluralism
Religious pluralism is neither mere coexistence nor forced consensus. It is a form of proactive cooperation that affirms the identity of the constituent communities while emphasizing that the well-being of each and all depends on the health of the whole. It is the belief that the common good is best served when each community has a chance to make its unique contribution.
-- Eboo Patel

#Religious #Unique #Community
My favorite single line from the QurÂ’an is from Surah 49:13, which says that God made us different nations and tribes that we may come to know one another, in the sense that diversity is holy and it was created by God. What we humans are meant to do with that diversity is engage in positive interaction with each other and come to know one another Â– because knowledge is holy and pluralism or positive engagement is holy.
-- Eboo Patel

#Communication #Diversity #Different
I thought about the meaning of pluralism in a world where the forces that seek to divide us are strong. I came to one conclusion: We have to save each other. Itâ€™s the only way to save ourselves.
-- Eboo Patel

#Strong #World #Way
A social entrepreneur is somebody who knows how to make an idea reality, and one of the great ideas of our time is pluralism. Can people from different backgrounds live together in mutual peace and loyalty? And what we need is a generation of young social entrepreneurs who know how to make that great idea reality in an historical moment where religious extremists are, frankly, making their idea reality.
-- Eboo Patel

#Loyalty #Religious #Reality
Have big dreams but focus only on what you can control: your own thoughts, words and actions. This was Gandhi's way ... in the words of Buddhist poet Gary Snyder, our job is to move the world a millionth of an inch.
-- Eboo Patel

#Dream #Buddhist #Jobs

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