Bibliography: #BIB05310

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reference type	Book
title	The Negro Problem : Its Significance, Strength, and Solution
author	Montgomery, Leroy J.
year	1950
date	1950
publisher	Island Press
place published	New York
issue	10.
notes	Bahá'í Faith: pp. 32-36. A forceful, candid essay on race relations in 1950 America by "an American of color:" "The only method which will create the absolute solution is the spiritual method. It is not only singular, but unique. It represents man's only hope for ideal race relationships. It is my personal conviction that the spiritual method is introduced in only two religious faiths, Christianity and the Baha'i world faith. Christianity gives us the personal aspect of the method, while the social aspect of it comes in the Baha'i faith.... The Baha'i faith fulfills Christianity, by definitely outlining, emphasizing and completing its social gospel; it also supplements love with justice, stresses man's reactions, and appeals to the collective consciousness of mankind." Montgomery pulls a quote of Baha'u'llah from Stanwood Cobb's Security for a Failing World, then includes passages from Emeric Sala's This Earth, One Country. He concludes with the following: "...the Baha'i faith... is destined not only to teach but also to demonstrate to America and the world how to solve the race problem. For Baha'is have not only solved the problem in their minds, but also in their lives, and thereby have set up a standard which all men will learn to follow, because they will recognize it as the will of God for their lives, and consequently, as the foremost remedy for the social maladies which disturb and destroy mankind...."
language	English
keywords	RACE; RACISM; AFRICAN AMERICANS; RACE UNITY
number of pages	37

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