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Any Classification According To A Singular Identity Polarizes People In A Particular Way, But If We Take Note Of The Fact That We Have Many Different Identities - Related Not Just To Religion But Also To Language, Occupation And Business, Politics, Class And Poverty, And Many Others - We Can See That The Polarization Of One Can Be Resisted By A Fuller Picture. So Knowledge And Understanding Are Extremely Important To Fight Against Singular Polarization.

I Don’t Think That India Is Much Celebrated For Its Democracy. Democracy Has Been A Very Neglected Commodity At Home And Abroad.

But Once We Recognize That Many Ideas That Are Taken To Be Quintessentially Western Have Also Flourished In Other Civilizations, We Also See That These Ideas Are Not As Culture-specific As Is Sometimes Claimed. We Need Not Begin With Pessimism, At Least On This Ground, About The Prospects Of Reasoned Humanism In The World.

I Think One Big Thing About The United States Is That The American Population, They May Be Excited About Iraq Or One Thing Or Another, But Basically Has Had A Great Deal Of Interest In Humanitarian Causes Both Within The Country And Abroad. Even When They Criticize The Mechanism To Which It Flows.

There Are Some People Who Say That They’re Concerned Only With Poverty But Not Inequality. But I Don’t Think That Is A Sustainable Thought. A Lot Of Poverty Is, In Fact, Inequality Because Of The Connection Between Income And Capability—having Adequate Resources To Take Part In The Life Of The Community.