In the end, our efforts to extend equal rights to all in our global society will succeed or fail based on whether or not we can connect with the real ground of our equality. When we lose sight of that common ground, our differences are all too often treated as matters of higher or lower. When this happens, diversity looks like an obstacle to real equality. Interdependence offers a way to see instead the great value in diversity and to recognize that equality does not require uniformity. But in order for our equality to be a value we live by, and not an abstract principle we are willing to
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