.... 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)
