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The Great Peace towards which people of good will throughout the centuries have ... |
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Whether peace is to be reached only after unimaginable horrors precipitated by humanity's ... |
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Among the favourable signs are the steadily growing strength of the steps towards ... |
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The scientific and technological advances occurring in this unusually blessed century portend a ... |
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It is out of a deep sense of spiritual and moral duty that ... |
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"The winds of despair", Bahá'u'lláh wrote, "are, alas, blowing from every direction, and ... |
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With the entrenchment of this view, a paralyzing contradiction has developed in human ... |
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As the need for peace becomes more urgent, this fundamental contradiction, which hinders ... |
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To choose such a course is not to deny humanity's past but to ... |
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A candid acknowledgement that prejudice, war and exploitation have been the expression of ... |
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Whatever suffering and turmoil the years immediately ahead may hold, however dark the ... |
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The endowments which distinguish the human race from all other forms of life ... |
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No serious attempt to set human affairs aright, to achieve world peace, can ... |
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Writing of religion as a social force, Bahá'u'lláh said: "Religion is the greatest ... |
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If, therefore, humanity has come to a point of paralyzing conflict it must ... |
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The teaching that we should treat others as we ourselves would wish to ... |
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Had humanity seen the Educators of its collective childhood in their true character, ... |
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The resurgence of fanatical religious fervour occurring in many lands cannot be regarded ... |
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However vital a force religion has been in the history of mankind, and ... |
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How tragic is the record of the substitute faiths that the worldly-wise of ... |
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The time has come when those who preach the dogmas of materialism, whether ... |
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Most particularly, it is in the glorification of material pursuits, at once the ... |
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That materialistic ideals have, in the light of experience, failed to satisfy the ... |
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Those who care for the future of the human race may well ponder ... |
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Banning nuclear weapons, prohibiting the use of poison gases, or outlawing germ warfare ... |
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Certainly, there is no lack of recognition by national leaders of the world-wide ... |
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The tentative steps towards world order, especially since World War II, give hopeful signs. ... |
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The increasing attention being focused on some of the most deep-rooted problems ... |
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Racism, one of the most baneful and persistent evils, is a major barrier ... |
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The inordinate disparity between rich and poor, a source of acute suffering, keeps ... |
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Unbridled nationalism, as distinguished from a sane and legitimate patriotism, must give way ... |
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Religious strife, throughout history, has been the cause of innumerable wars and conflicts, ... |
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The emancipation of women, the achievement of full equality between the sexes, is ... |
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The cause of universal education, which has already enlisted in its service an ... |
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A fundamental lack of communication between peoples seriously undermines efforts towards ... |
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Two points bear emphasizing in all these issues. One is that the abolition ... |
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There are spiritual principles, or what some call human values, by which solutions ... |
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The primary question to be resolved is how the present world, with its ... |
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World order can be founded only on an unshakeable consciousness of the oneness ... |
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Acceptance of the oneness of mankind is the first fundamental prerequisite for reorganization ... |
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In the Bahá'í view, recognition of the oneness of mankind "calls for no less ... |
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Elaborating the implications of this pivotal principle, Shoghi Effendi, the Guardian of the ... |
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The achievement of such ends requires several stages in the adjustment of national ... |
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The predominant aspects of this problem had already emerged in the nineteenth century ... |
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A world community in which all economic barriers will have been permanently demolished ... |
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The implementation of these far-reaching measures was indicated by Bahá'u'lláh: "The time ... |
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The courage, the resolution, the pure motive, the selfless love of one people ... |
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Concerning the proceedings for this world gathering, 'Abdu'l-Bahá, the son of Bahá'u'lláh and ... |
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The holding of this mighty convocation is long overdue. |
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With all the ardour of our hearts, we appeal to the leaders of ... |
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Will not the United Nations, with the full support of its membership, rise ... |
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Let men and women, youth and children everywhere recognize the eternal merit of ... |
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The source of the optimism we feel is a vision transcending the cessation ... |
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Disunity is a danger that the nations and peoples of the earth can ... |
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All contemporary forces of change validate this view. The proofs can be discerned ... |
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The experience of the Bahá'í community may be seen as an example of ... |
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In contemplating the supreme importance of the task now challenging the entire world, ... |
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We hold firmly the conviction that all human beings have been created "to ... |
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At this writing, the expectant voices of Bahá'ís can be heard despite the ... |
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In the earnestness of our desire to impart to you the fervour of ... |
