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History does not relate any true revolution which came from power. All began with education and meant in essence a moral summons.

— Alija Izetbegović The Islamic Declaration (1970)

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This may not be a just peace, but it is more just than the continuation of war.

Bosnia should be a secular state. A non-secular Bosnia would be terror.

Sleep peacefully people, there will not be a war.

The upbringing of the people, and particularly means of mass influence - the press, radio, television, and film - should be in the hands of people whose good Islamic moral and intellectual authority is indisputable.

The Islamic Declaration (1970)

The idea of Islamic renewal, which understands Islam as capable not only of educating human beings but also of ordering the world, will always have two types of people as its opponents: conservatives who want the old forms, and modernists who want someone else's forms.

The Islamic Declaration (1970)

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

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The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

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Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.

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