Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
“O MY BROTHER! Hearken to the delightsome words of My honeyed tongue, and quaff the stream of mystic holiness from My sugar-shedding lips. Sow the seeds of My divine wisdom in the pure soil of thy heart, and water them with the water of certitude, that the hyacinths of My knowledge and wisdom may spring up fresh and green in the sacred city of thy heart.”
-Baha’u’llah, The Hidden Words of Baha’u’llah
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Persia, USA
“Keep all my words of prayer and praise confined to one refrain; make all my life but servitude to Thee.”
-‘Abdu’l‑Baha, Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l‑Baha
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San Diego, USA
“That all nations should become one in faith and all men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should cease, and differences of race be annulled—what harm is there in this?… Yet so it shall be; these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the “Most Great Peace” shall come…”
-Baha’u’llah, Words spoken to E. G. Browne
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Gold Coast, Australia
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
-Elie Wiesel
I wanted to use the above quotation in honour of the Loss of Elie Wiesel.
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Mississippi Palisades State Park, USA
“In the Bahá’í view, the blatantly false and misguided premises upon which racism rests must be countered by the truth: that all human beings belong to a single human family, the human race, a family united biologically, socially, and spiritually, while displaying, to the enrichment of the entire planet a limitless variety of secondary physical characteristics. If every person is led to perceive this truth and to welcome those of another skin color as members of his own spiritual family, racism will find a receptive home nowhere and will evaporate of its own accord. It is therefore essential to educate every individual, but especially young children, in the truth of the unity of the human race, a truth confirmed by all the human sciences.”
-From a statement of the Baha’i International Community, 1988