And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Can the modern Commonwealth, once described by Nelson Mandela as making "the world safe for diversity", help improve the rights of LGBT people by fostering opportunities for cross-cultural dialogue and mutual support for policy progress?
Speaking at American University's morning commencement, he urged new approaches to the cold war, saying, "And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity".
-Edmund Burke Let us not be blind to our differences — but let us also direct our attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved... if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
Twenty-four hours after he had called for making "the world safe for diversity," he would now call for making the United States a place where its diverse citizens could enjoy safety and equality.
DJ Mag spoke with DJs and producers about the changing cultural landscape for gender identity, safe spaces and diversity in the nightlife world.
In reality, the so-called "kits" were proposed learning materials teachers could use to teach their students about safe sex, sexual diversity and tolerance as part of a federal "Escola sem homofobia" ("Schools Without Homophobia") initiative.
To be sure, there are some relative benefits to being poor in the suburbs, which, compared with inner cities sometimes offer better schools, greater socioeconomic diversity, safer streets and, if there are jobs nearby, shorter commutes.
Modern cities can bring population health gains through physically safer jobs, dietary diversity, preventive health programmes and environmental improvements.
At some universities, alumni and students have objected to a variety of campus measures, including diversity training; "safe spaces," places where students from marginalized groups can gather to discuss their experiences; and "trigger warnings," disclaimers about possibly upsetting material in lesson plans.
