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The Vision Of Race Unity
America’s Most Challenging Issue
A Statement by the National Spiritual Assembly
of the Bahá’ís of the United States
The National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States is the
national administrative body for the Bahá’ís of the United States. The Assembly,
has nine members and is elected annually by delegates from the forty eight
contiguous states. It directs, coordinates, and stimulates the activities
of local Bahá'í administrative bodies and of the 110,000 Bahá’ís in the United
States.
The Bahá’í Faith is an independent world religion with adherents in virtually
every country. The worldwide Bahá’í community, numbering more than five million,
includes almost all nationalities and classes. More than 2,100 ethnic groups
and tribes are represented. There are 155 National Spiritual Assemblies.
Bahá’u’lláh was the Prophet-Founder of the Bahá’í Faith. The central principles
of His religion are the oneness of God, the oneness of religion, and the oneness
of humanity. His religion “proclaims the necessity and the inevitability of
the unification of mankind.... It, moreover, enjoins upon its followers the
primary duty of an unfettered search after truth, condemns all manner of prejudice
and superstition, declares the purpose of religion to be the promotion of
amity and concord, proclaims its essential harmony with science, and recognizes
it as the foremost agency for the pacification and the orderly progress of
human society. It unequivocally maintains the principle of equal rights, opportunities
and privileges for men and women, insists on compulsory education, eliminates
extremes of poverty and wealth, abolishes the institution of priesthood, prohibits
slavery, asceticism, mendicancy and monasticism, prescribes monogamy, discourages
divorce, emphasizes the necessity of strict obedience to one's government,
exalts any work performed in the spirit of service to the level of worship,
urges either the creation or the adoption of an auxiliary international language,
and delineates the outlines of those institutions that must establish and
perpetuate the general peace of mankind.”
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