Celebrating Diversity

Jim Langevin
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

The diversity of our community, our nation, and our world makes us stronger, more resilient, and better people. Our various backgrounds have given us a wide array of art, language, food, and faith, and I believe this variety of experience enriches our lives.

I was so pleased to join Dr. Ehsun Mirza and many others at a multi-faith dinner to celebrate our diversity and band together in faith and friendship. Dr. Mirza was born in Pakistan and immigrated to the United States for his residency training after medical school. In addition to working as a critical care doctor at Kent Hospital, he is a social activist who regularly travels internationally to provide relief services and medical care in rural areas of Nepal and Pakistan. He is a true inspiration, and this dinner provided a wonderful opportunity to break bread and connect with people of various faiths and backgrounds.

As Martin Luther King, Jr. reminds us, “an individual has not started living fully until they can rise above the narrow confines of individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of humanity.”

The multi-faith dinner was a reminder that we ought to strive to rise above our own self-interest to better understand our neighbors so that we might make positive changes in our own lives and in the lives of those we touch.

Jim Langevin

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Congressman for Rhode Island's Second District www.facebook.com/CongressmanJimLangevin

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