“the ideals which the American believers must, from now on, individually and through concerted action, strive to promote, in both their private and public lives”

• A rectitude of conduct, an abiding sense of undeviating justice, unobscured by the demoralizing influences which a corruption-ridden political life so strikingly manifests;
• a chaste, pure, and holy life, unsullied and unclouded by the indecencies, the vices, the false standards, which an inherently deficient moral code tolerates, perpetuates, and fosters;
• a fraternity freed from that cancerous growth of racial prejudice, which is eating into the vitals of an already debilitated society—

these are the ideals which the American believers must, from now on, individually and through concerted action, strive to promote, in both their private and public lives, ideals which are the chief propelling forces that can most effectively accelerate the march of their institutions, plans, and enterprises, that can guard the honor and integrity of their Faith, and subdue any obstacles that may confront it in the future. 

- Shoghi Effendi  (‘The Advent of Divine Justice’)