Dec 2, 2017

Overcoming poverty

Your comments concerning poverty emphasize the extent to which society must change its attitudes before a solution to that social problem can be found. It is not simply a matter of economics; the solution deeply involves the adoption of spiritual principles at the grassroots as well as among governments. It imposes upon the Bahá'ís a clear duty to teach the Faith with unabating vigour. 
- The Universal House of Justice  (From a letter dated 27 April 1988 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; Compilation: Redistribution of Wealth, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)