…my advice to you is, endeavor as much
as ye can to show kindness toward all men, deal with perfect love, affection
and devotion with all the individuals of humanity. Remove from amongst
yourselves racial, patriotic, religious, sectional, political, commercial,
industrial and agricultural prejudices, so that you may become freed from all
human restrictions and become the founders of the structures of the oneness of
the world of humanity. All the countries are one country; all the nations are
the children of one Father. The struggle for existence among the ferocious
wolves has become the cause of all these differences and strifes; otherwise the
expanse of the world is spacious and the table of the Bounties of the Almighty
is spread in all the regions.
(‘Abdu’l-Baha, from a Tablet, ‘Star of the West’,
vol. 1, no. 17, January 19, 1911)
