Ralph Bunche Quotes

hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.

The well-being and the hopes of the peoples of the world can never be served until peace - as well as freedom, honor and self-respect - is secure.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined, courageous and hard-working. Never be faint-hearted. Be resolute, but never bitter.

We must fight as a race for everything that makes for a better country and a better world. We are dreaming idiots and trusting fools to do anything less.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.

The United Nations stands for the freedom and equality of all peoples, irrespective of race, religion, or ideology.

There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.