During His epic visit to America, ‘Abdu’l-Bahá openly
expressed His views on the need to eradicate racial prejudice and took bold
actions to demonstrate the importance of this principle as it applies to
relations between black and white people. Shoghi Effendi, in “The Advent of
Divine Justice”, wrote in unequivocal language on this theme, addressing
specifically the nature of the actions required on the part of the members of
each race to remove this scourge from social relations within the Bahá’í
community. He repeatedly appealed in other messages for urgent attention to be
given to the matter, warning of the severe consequences that neglecting it
would entail.
- The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 10 March 2004 written on behalf of the
Universal House of Justice; compilation: ‘Achieving Race Unity and Advancing
the Process of Entry by Troops: Extracts from Letters Written on behalf of the
Universal House of Justice to Individual Believers in the United States’,
prepared by the Baha’i World center)
