Shoghi Effendi is also most anxious for the Message to reach
the aboriginal inhabitants of the Americas. These people, for the most part
downtrodden and ignorant, should receive from the Bahá'ís a special measure of
love, and every effort be made to teach them. Their enrolment in the Faith will
enrich them and us, and demonstrate our principle of the Oneness of Man far
better than words or the wide conversion of the ruling races ever can.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a
letter dated 11 July 1951 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi to the National
Spiritual Assembly of Meso-America and the Antilles; The Compilation of
Compilations, vol. II, Teaching Among Aboriginal and Indigenous People)
