.... We desire but the good of the world and happiness of
the nations; yet they deem us a stirrer up of strife and sedition worthy of
bondage and banishment.... That all nations should become one in faith and all
men as brothers; that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men
should be strengthened; that diversity of religion should cease, and
differences of race be annulled -- what harm is there in this?... Yet so it
shall be; these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the
"Most Great Peace" shall come....
(Words of Baha’u’llah, spoken to E.
G. Browne in 1890, from his pen portrait of Bahá'u'lláh, quoted by J. E.
Esslemont in ‘Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era’; The Compilation of Compilations,
vol. II, Peace)
