The purpose of the coming of Bahá'u'lláh is to lift the yoke
of oppression from His loved ones, to liberate all the people of the world, and
to provide the means for their abiding happiness.
(15 June 1987, written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to
a Bahá'í couple; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. III, Cultural
Diversity in the Age of Maturity)