"Each one of the world’s teachers when they come are misunderstood, and the first thing we do is strike out at them, behead them, hang them on a cross or whatever. Here mankind waits thousands of years for the coming of someone to help the unity of mankind, and then when he comes, they throw him in jail for 40 years and torture him. I was more or less trying to speak for the human race — presumptuous, I know — saying we were sorry."
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Jim Seals, on the song "Hummingbird" being a metaphoric reference to Bahá'u'lláh and other religious leaders, as quoted in "Passing This Way Again : Seals & Crofts Are Trying Out New Material, Hoping There’s a Place for Them in the ‘90s" by Jim Washburn, Los Angeles Times (26 October 1991)
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