Daisaku Ikeda

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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But I believe we must not allow feelings of defeat to take root in our hearts. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Dialogue and education for peace can help free our hearts from the impulse toward intolerance and the rejection of others. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Divorced from the cosmos, from nature, from society and from each other, we have become fractured and fragmented. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

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