What 'Abdu'l-Baha meant about the women arising for peace is that this is a matter which vitally affects women, and when they form a conscious and overwhelming mass of public opinion against war there can be no war. The Baha'i women are already organized through being members of the Faith and the Administrative Order. No further organization is needed. But they should, through teaching and through the active moral support they give to every movement directed towards peace, seek to exert a strong influence on other women's minds in regard to this essential matter.
- Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 24 March 1945, written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi, quoted by the Universal House of Justice in a letter dated 5 January 1986, written on its behalf to an individual believer; ‘Messages from the Universal House of Justice 1963-1986’)
