I am very happy to see you and thank God that this meeting
is composed of people of both races and that both are gathered in perfect love
and harmony. I hope this becomes the example of universal harmony and love
until no title remains except that of humanity. Such a title demonstrates the
perfection of the human world and is the cause of eternal glory and human
happiness. I pray that you be with one another in utmost harmony and love and
strive to enable each other to live in comfort.
- ‘Abdu’l-Baha (From a talk, 23
April 1912, at Howard University, Washington D.C.; ‘The Promulgation of Universal
Peace: Talks Delivered by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá during His Visit to the United States
and Canada in 1912’)
