Racial and ethnic prejudices have been subjected to equally
summary treatment by historical processes that have little patience left for
such pretensions. Here, rejection of the past has been especially decisive.
Racism is now tainted by its association with the horrors of the twentieth
century to the degree that it has taken on something of the character of a
spiritual disease. While surviving as a social attitude in many parts of the
world—and as a blight on the lives of a significant segment of humankind—racial
prejudice has become so universally condemned in principle that no body of
people can any longer safely allow themselves to be identified with it.
- The
Universal House of Justice (From a message dated April 2002 to “The World’s
Religious Leaders”)
