“The destructive effects of inequality prevent men from maturing and developing the qualities necessary to meet the challenges of the new millennium."

"Women and men have been and will always be equal in the sight of God."

(Additional Tablets and Extracts from Tablets Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh)

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“Men have an inescapable duty to promote the equality of women. The presumption of superiority by men thwarts the ambition of women and inhibits the creation of an environment in which equality may reign. The destructive effects of inequality prevent men from maturing and developing the qualities necessary to meet the challenges of the new millennium. “As long as women are prevented from attaining their highest possibilities,” the Bahá’í Writings state, “so long will men be unable to achieve the greatness which might be theirs.”

( ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, Paris Talks: Addresses Given by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in Paris in 1911, 12th ed. (London: Bahá’í Publishing Trust, 1995), 40.33)  Quoted in Two Wings of a Bird – National Spiritual Assembly of United States