<P> Unity in diversity (Latin: unitas in varetite) is a political motto advocating federalism multiculturalism . The phrase is a deliberate oxymoron, the rhetorical combination of two antonyms, unitas "unity, oneness" and varietas "variety, variousness". </P> <P> The phrase can be traced to Leibniz, who uses it as a definition of "harmony" (Harmonia est unitas in varietate) in his Elementa verae pietatis, sive de amore dei super omnia (1677 / 8). In modern politics it was first used, as In varietate unitas, by Ernesto Teodoro Moneta in the context of Italian Unification . In 1943 it invoked by Adélard Godbout, Premier of Quebec, in the context of the situation of French Canadians within Canada . The variant In varietate concordia was adopted as the motto of the European Union in 2000 . </P> <P> In 1938, in his book The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh, Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the Baha'i Faith, said that "unity in diversity" was the "watchword" for the religion . </P>

Can diversity also be a part of unity