It [the Baha’i Faith] inculcates the principle of equal
opportunity, rights and privileges for both sexes, advocates compulsory
education, abolishes extremes of poverty and wealth, exalts work performed in
the spirit of service to the rank of worship, recommends the adoption of an
auxiliary international language, and provides the necessary agencies for the
establishment and safeguarding of a permanent and universal peace.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated June 1933 to the High Commissioner for Palestine;
Compilation: ‘Science and Technology’, compiled by Research Department of the
Universal House of Justice and attached to a Memorandum from the Research
Department of the Universal House of Justice, dated 13-August 1997)
