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Race Unity in America Devotions and Discussion meetings which began in July 2016 are continuing monthly (See Blog article). Please feel free to join us. Some of the quotes shared at the meeting have included the following:
- I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragicaly bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality...I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. --Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. --Genesis 1:26
- Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prjudice. Divide and conquer! We must not let that happen here. --Eleanor Roosevelt
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O CHILDREN OF MEN! Know ye not why We created you all from the same dust? That no one should exalt himself over the other. Ponder at all times in your hearts how ye were created. Since We have created you all from one same substance it is incumbent on you to be even as one soul, to walk with the same feet, eat with the same mouth and dwell in the same land, that from your inmost being, by your deeds and actions, the signs of oneness and the essence of detachment may be made manifest. Such is My counsel to you, O concourse of light! --Baha'u'llah
- O Great Spirit have mercy upon us so that we may live with our relatives. Grand Father, hear our voices for we are small. Oh, Great Spirit see that we come to you in a good way. Help us to see and recognize and understand our place in this great circle of life. Grand Father, we give thanks to you for this day and all the blessings we have received from you. --Lakota Tribe
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And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment. And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these. --Mark 12:39-31
- If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a societty, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom. --Bayard Rustin
- O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. --The Qur'an 49:13