Good point from Bill Clinton at 2007 Havard Commencement (read full transcript):

• “When the human genome was sequenced, ….. the most interesting thing to me was the discovery that human beings with their three billion genomes are 99.9 percent identical genetically. ” Yet we focus much of our attention on the one tenth of one percent, on the differences we draw”
• “There is no challenge we face, no barrier to having your grandchildren here on this beautiful site 50 years from now, more profound than the ideological and emotional divide which continues to demean our common life and undermine our ability to solve our common problems. The simple idea that our differences are more important than our common humanity.”
• “Enjoy your differences, but realize that our common humanity matters much, much more. “