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Despite the nature of the politics of that time, we presented our teachings on unity and the oneness of humankind to prominent individuals in politics, commerce and academia and leaders of thought including State Presidents .... oth individual Bahá ' ís and our administrative institutions were continually watched by the security police .... Our activities did not include opposition to the previous Government for involvement in partisan politics and opposition to government are explicitly prohibited by the sacred Texts of our Faith .... During the time when the previous Government prohibited integration within our communities, rather than divide into separate administrative structures for each population group, we opted to limit membership of the Bahá ' í Administration to the black adherents who were and remain in the majority of our membership and thereby placed the entire Bahá ' í community under the stewardship of its black membership ....
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