The primary question to be resolved is how the present
world, with its entrenched pattern of conflict, can change to a world in which
harmony and co-operation will prevail.
World order can be founded only on an unshakable
consciousness of the oneness of mankind, a spiritual truth which all the human
sciences confirm. Anthropology, physiology, psychology, recognize only one
human species, albeit infinitely varied in the secondary aspects of life.
Recognition of this truth requires abandonment of prejudice -- prejudice of
every kind -- race, class, colour, creed, nation, sex, degree of material
civilization, everything which enables people to consider themselves superior
to others.
Acceptance of the oneness of mankind is the first
fundamental prerequisite for reorganization and administration of the world as
one country, the home of humankind. Universal acceptance of this spiritual
principle is essential to any successful attempt to establish world peace....
(The Universal House of Justice, from a message dated October 1985 addressed to
the Peoples of the World; The Compilation of Compilations, vol. II, Women)
