A candid acknowledgement that
prejudice, war and exploitation have been the expression of immature stages in
a vast historical process and that the human race is today experiencing the
unavoidable tumult which marks its collective coming of age is not a reason for
despair but a prerequisite to undertaking the stupendous enterprise of building
a peaceful world. That such an enterprise is possible, that the necessary
constructive forces do exist, that unifying social structures can be erected,
is the theme we urge you to examine.
(The Universal House of Justice, from a
message dated October 1985, addressed to the Peoples of the World; ‘The Promise
of World Peace’)
