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All Quotes by author - Hamza Yusuf

" A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is. "

" All of the people are the dependents of Allah. "

" All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life. "

" A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous. "

" America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles. "

" Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility. "

" As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them. "

" A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive. "

" Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best. "

" Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism. "

" Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases. "

" For believers, both privilege and privation are a trial, and both demand responses: one demands service, and the other demands patience. The greatest privilege is to live well in flourishing lands; the greatest privation is to live in the midst of war, especially civil war. "

" God is much greater than anything we can imagine. "

" Hunger can bring out the worst in us. "

" Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back. "

" I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam. "

" If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems. "

" I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. "

" In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world. "

" I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism. "

" ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions. "

" Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim. "

" I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop! "

" I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable. "

" I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition. "

" I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect. "

" I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way. "

" Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together. "

" Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees. "

" Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one. "

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