We need to embrace and examine difference and not push it to the margins and pretend like it never mattered. In difference lay the answer to many of societies greatest ills. If we can through understanding, and not denial, overcome the boundaries it has built, then maybe we have chance. As long as we are mute on the subject of difference, though, there is no hope. Difference can make a difference.
Difference can yield peace.
Difference can be beautiful, but only if we know how to make it so.