Ralph Bunche

“The United Nations has become the chief instrument for the mediation of conflicts among nations.”

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

“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.”

“Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.”

“There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.”

“I have a number of very strong dislikes. I dislike what is petty, mean, cruel and inhuman.”

“If you want to get across the street, you don't wait for the lights to turn green in all directions. You just go.”

“To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering.”

“They say that I am a gradualist. I am not. I believe in getting everything that is our right, and I believe in getting it now.”

“In the long run, there is no more realistic and no more promising road to peace than the United Nations.”

“We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to work for it.”

“I am not a myth. I am a fact.”