. . .And he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
— 2 Nephi 26:33
"[Let us] delete from our personal vocabularies names that segregate and hyphens that separate," said Elder Russell M. Nelson of the Quorum of the Twelve at April 1995 general conference.