Gal 3:28; Col. 3:11; Acts 17:24, 26; refer in this text to 2 Ne. 26:24-28, 33
“Throughout the world, however, strident voices are engaged in divisive disputation and name-calling. Often demeaning nicknames are added to—or even substituted for—-given names. Unfortunately, terms of derision obscure the true identity of children of the covenant… . When the Nephites were truly righteous, they avoided divisive nicknames… . ‘There were no … Lamanites, nor any manner of -ites; but they were in one, the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God’ (4 Ne. 1:17). That lesson from history suggests that we also delete from our personal vocabularies names that segregate… .” (Russell M. Nelson, Ensign, May 1995, p. 34)
[Regarding 4 Ne. 1:15, 17] “That is worth keeping in mind as we open a discussion on the origin of man, a subject which often leads defenders of opposing views to controversy and to label one another. In the Spirit of the Book of Mormon, please may we drop all labels, all of the ‘ites,’ and ‘isms,’ and ‘ists’? Let there be no ‘evolutionists’ nor ‘creationists’ nor any manner of ‘ists’; just seekers after truth.” (Boyd K. Packer, The Book of Mormon: Jacob Through Words of Mormon, To Learn with Joy, p. 2)