The enduring legacy of the twentieth century is that it
compelled the peoples of the world to begin seeing themselves as the members of
a single human race, and the earth as that race’s common homeland. Despite the
continuing conflict and violence that darken the horizon, prejudices that once
seemed inherent in the nature of the human species are everywhere giving way.
Down with them come barriers that long divided the family of man into a Babel
of incoherent identities of cultural, ethnic or national origin. That so
fundamental a change could occur in so brief a period—virtually overnight in
the perspective of historical time—suggests the magnitude of the possibilities
for the future.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a message dated April
2002 addressed to the World’s Religious Leaders)
