"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I?" - First Century Palestinian rabbi Hillel
"To see the other side, to defend another people, not despite your tradition but because of it, is the heart of pluralism." - Eboo Patel
"[The dream of pluralism:] the idea of different communities retaining their uniqueness while relating in a way that recognizes they share universal values." - Eboo Patel
"Our challenge is to discover the ways in which we differ and learn to value the differences. Only then can we join with Krister Stendahl, Luterhan Bishop Emeritus, who asserts that if we truly live into our Christian calling we will experience 'more than tolerance, more than reluctant recognition of the actual pluralism that surrounds us relentlessly.' He goes on to say the Christian calling allows him to sing his song to Jesus 'with abandon...without speaking negatively about others." - Amanda Millay Hughes
"In order to be obedient to that commandment [to love one another as he has loved us], I understand myself to be required to participate in conversations in which I am not afforded the last word or the luxury of full agreement, compliance, or conversion.”-Amanda Millay Hughes
"Those of us who have been involved in interreligious dialogue know how exposure to people of other traditions deepens and challenges our understanding of our own traditions.”-Anantanand Rambachan
"We cannot ignore the fact that the United States is now the world’s most religiously diverse nation, and our teaching and learning here must be cognizant of the challenges of this fact. A college of the church seems to me to be a particularly appropriate place to identify and explore the many new questions that continue to be generated by our experience of religious diversity, and I welcome the opportunity to explore such issues…” -Anantanand Rambachan
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