Be not dismayed
if your endeavors are dismissed as utopian by the voices that would oppose any
suggestion of fundamental change. Trust in the capacity of this generation to disentangle
itself from the embroilments of a divided society. To discharge your
responsibilities, you will have to show forth courage, the courage of those who
cling to standards of rectitude, whose lives are characterized by purity of
thought and action, and whose purpose is directed by love and indomitable
faith. As you dedicate yourselves to healing the wounds with which your peoples
have been afflicted, you will become invincible champions of justice.
- The
Universal House of Justice (From a message dated 8 January 2000, addressed to
the Friends gathered at the Youth Congress in Paraguay)
