The organized endeavors of the Bahá’í community in these
areas are reinforced by the diverse initiatives of individual believers working
in various fields—as volunteers, professionals, and experts—to contribute to
social change. The distinctive nature of their approach is to avoid conflict
and the contest for power while striving to unite people in the search for
underlying moral and spiritual principles and for practical measures that can
lead to the just resolution of the problems afflicting society. Bahá’ís
perceive humanity as a single body. All are inseparably bound to one
another. A social order structured to
meet the needs of one group at the expense of another results in injustice and
oppression. Instead, the best interest
of each component part is achieved by considering its needs in the context of
the well-being of the whole. - The Universal House of Justice (From a letter dated 23 December 2008 written on
behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer;
compilation: ‘Social Action’, Prepared by the Research Department of the
Universal House of Justice, August 2020)
