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Manual On Good Administration Principles

Rumi (1207-1273) expressed the idea of equality in the most powerful way
centuries ago:

All human beings are brothers; neither servants nor slaves.

In addition, Rumi wrote a recommendation letter to an administrator to request
relief for an unjust behaviour towards a complainant, where he considered
“doing someone justice serves all the humanity”.

I hope that you give him his just share; for whoever
protects a person’s rights protects the rights of all
people.

Saadi Shirazi (1210-1292) eloquently manifested the principle of equality with the
following poem, which later became a motto on the entrance of the United Nations
building in New York:

Human beings are members of a whole,
In creation of one essence and soul.
If one member is afflicted with pain,
Other members uneasy will remain.
If you have no sympathy for human pain,
The name of human you cannot retain.

Furthermore, Saadi Shirazi asserted knowledge and justice as the elements of
good administration:

An administration based on knowledge and justice
pleases all human beings.

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