Links to "It's Just the Beginning" Baha'i Documentary

Just added links to the documentary film of 1970 Baha'i Youth Conference in Wilmette, Ill. 

https://youtu.be/kraWZXPtmYo

Credit to Kiva Films and © The National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States

"Love ye all religions and all races..."

"Love ye all religions and all races with a love that is true and sincere and show that love through deeds and not through the tongue; for the latter hath no importance, as the majority of men are, in speech, well-wishers, while action is the best."

-'Abdu'l-Baha, Selections from the Writings of 'Abdu'l-Baha, p. 68

Walker Evans

Library of Congress

"illumine your hearts with the light of His love..."

"Say: This is the Day when every ear must needs be attentive to His voice. Hearken ye to the Call of this wronged One, and magnify ye the name of the one true God, and adorn yourselves with the ornament of His remembrance, and illumine your hearts with the light of His love. This is the key that unlocketh the hearts of men, the burnish that shall cleanse the souls of all beings. He that is careless of what hath poured out from the finger of the Will of God liveth in manifest error. Amity and rectitude of conduct, rather than dissension and mischief, are the marks of true faith."
- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 205

"whosoever is quickened thereby shall never die..."

"Know then that "life" hath a twofold meaning. The first pertaineth to the appearance of man in an elemental body, and is as manifest to thine eminence and to others as the midday sun. This life cometh to an end with physical death, which is a God-ordained and inescapable reality. That life, however, which is mentioned in the Books of the Prophets and the Chosen Ones of God is the life of knowledge; that is to say, the servant's recognition of the sign of the splendours wherewith He Who is the Source of all splendour hath Himself invested him, and his certitude of attaining unto the presence of God through the Manifestations of His Cause. This is that blessed and everlasting life that perisheth not: whosoever is quickened thereby shall never die, but will endure as long as His Lord and Creator will endure."
- Baha'u'llah, Gems of Divine Mysteries, pp. 47-48

Dedicated to the loving memory of Elnora Otey and Bruce H. Barick.

"Jesus Christ gave His life upon the cross for the unity of mankind."

"The divine Prophets came to establish the unity of the Kingdom in human hearts. All of them proclaimed the glad tidings of the divine bestowals to the world of mankind. All brought the same message of divine love to the world. Jesus Christ gave His life upon the cross for the unity of mankind. Those who believed in Him likewise sacrificed life, honour, possessions, family, everything, that this human world might be released from the hell of discord, enmity and strife. His foundation was the oneness of humanity. Only a few were attracted to Him. They were not the kings and rulers of His time. They were not rich and important people. Some of them were catchers of fish. Most of them were ignorant men, not trained in the knowledge of this world. One of the greatest of them, Peter, could not remember the days of the week. All of them were men of the least consequence in the eyes of the world. But their hearts were pure and attracted by the fires of the Divine Spirit manifested in Christ. With this small army Christ conquered the world of the East and the West. Kings and nations rose against Him. Philosophers and the greatest men of learning assailed and blasphemed His Cause. All were defeated and overcome, their tongues silenced, their lamps extinguished, their hatred quenched; no trace of them now remains. They have become as nonexistent, while His Kingdom is triumphant and eternal.
'Abdu'l-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, p. 5

"The basis of the teaching of Baha'u'llah is the Unity of Mankind..."

"The basis of the teaching of Baha'u'llah is the Unity of Mankind, and his greatest desire was that love and goodwill should live in the heart of men.
As He exhorted the people to do away with strife and discord, so I wish to explain to you the principal reason of the unrest among nations. The chief cause is the misrepresentation of religion by the religious leaders and teachers. They teach their followers to believe that their own form of religion is the only one pleasing to God, and that followers of any other persuasion are condemned by the All-Loving Father and deprived of His Mercy and Grace. Hence arise among the peoples, disapproval, contempt, disputes and hatred. If these religious prejudices could be swept away, the nations would soon enjoy peace and concord."

- 'Abdu'l-Baha, Paris Talks, p. 45-46

"...translate that which hath been written into reality and action..."

"It is incumbent upon every man of insight and understanding to strive to translate that which hath been written into reality and action..."
- Baha'u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha'u'llah, p. 250