....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...
- Baha'u'llah (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)
