It is God's will that the differences between nations should disappear.
Those who help the Cause of Unity on, are doing God's work. Unity is the Divine
Bounty of this brilliant century. Praise be to God, there are many societies
and many meetings held for Unity. Hatred is not so much the cause of separation
now as it used to be; the cause of disunion now is mostly prejudice.
- 'Abdu'l-Baha (From a
compilation: ‘Discourses of ‘Abdu’l-Baha given in London and Paris’; Star of
the West, vol. 2, no. 19, March 2, 1912)