Perhaps, servant-leadership was offered as an antidote to the type of leadership he experienced there. Whereas the subtext of The Promise of Diversity is that assimilation is a weapon of the oppressor, the voices in The Language of Life are not as monolithic. From all of this, I have concluded that diversity is the path to community. When we appreciate the unique giftedness of each other, when we are able to name ourselves and be ourselves, we can find the connections and the common ground that lies buried under the rhetorical rubble of the 1990's. Diversity, it seems, is ultimately about creating organizations and institutions which allow our souls to breathe and the human spirit to flourish.
Diversity is a fact.
In that sense diversity is a call to action. Action requires the moral courage to look around us, tell the truth about what we see, and do something about it.