We're one race, the human race, one civilization.
In 1850 he wrote The Unity of the Human Race, in which he insisted correctly that all humans constitute a single species.
The impact of improved educational standards and information technologies is increasing global awareness, and the fundamental unity of the human race is becoming increasingly apparent.
Pius XI's planned encyclical, Humani generis unitas ("The Unity of the Human Race"), against racism and anti-Semitism, was returned to its authors by the new pope.
Augustine, as his magisterial biographer Peter Brown puts it, "was deeply preoccupied by the idea of the basic unity of the human race".
Though the unity of the human race may be denied by prejudice, pride or other mistakes, it is a spiritual, social, moral and biological fact upon which every man can bet his very life.
"We cannot ignore the difference which exists between anti-Semitism, based on theories contrary to the constant teaching of the church on the unity of the human race and on the equal dignity of all races and peoples, and the longstanding sentiments of mistrust and hostility that we call anti-Judaism, of which, unfortunately, Christians also have been guilty," the document said.
In the book's introduction, he attacks the Vatican's 1998 statement on the Holocaust, arguing that the distinction it draws between the church's historic anti-Judaism, defined as "longstanding sentiments of mistrust and hostility" and Nazi anti-Semitism, "based on theories contrary to the constant teaching of the church on the unity of the human race" is not supported by the facts.
Consequently, "the hypothesis of the original unity of the human race cannot be absolutely disproved" (ibid).
The time for unity of the human race is now.
While most of the writings of the Baha'i Faith focus on the current imperative needs of peace and unity for the human race on earth, there is a statement made by Baha'u'llah, the founder of the Baha'i Faith, about other stars and their planets: "Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute".
