O thou who hast an illumined heart! Thou art even as the
pupil of the eye, the very wellspring of the light, for God’s love hath cast
its rays upon thine inmost being and thou hast turned thy face toward the
Kingdom of thy Lord.
Intense is the hatred, in America, between black and white,
but my hope is that the power of the Kingdom will bind these two in friendship,
and serve them as a healing balm.
Let them look not upon a man’s colour but upon his heart. If
the heart be filled with light, that man is nigh unto the threshold of his
Lord; but if not, that man is careless of his Lord, be he white or be he black.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (‘Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Baha’)
