"The Tabernacle of Unity," Bahá'u'lláh proclaims
in His message to all mankind, "has been raised; regard ye not one another
as strangers ... Of one tree are all ye the fruit and of one bough the
leaves... The world is but one country and mankind its citizens ... Let not a man
glory in that he loves his country; let him rather glory in this, that he loves
his kind."
- Baha’u’llah (Quoted by Shoghi Effendi in a message dated 28
November 1931, in ‘The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh’; The Compilation of
Compilations, Vol.III, Cultural Diversity in the Age of Maturity)