because they are deadly poison, the lepers, the covenant breakers.

There is room for practically everybody in the Baháʼí Faith. Some of them may need spanking, and some of them have got to be kept out because they are deadly poison, the lepers, the covenant breakers. But that is another thing. But really the children of men, this Faith is their home. And there is room for all of them in it.

(Rúhíyyih Khánum speaking at the closing session of the Bahá’í World Congress in London, 1963)

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