Bunche Quotes

#1. So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops.

Ed Smith

#2. Stick and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. I wasn't really expecting me to win the gold in this race. To get another medal for myself and for the U.S. was a pretty good thing to happen, I'd say.

Bonnie Blair

#4. The Fuehrer declared that the Jews have played their final act in Europe, and therefore they have played their final act.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

#5. 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.

Ralph Bunche

#6. Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. I have a deep-seated bias against hate and intolerance. I have a bias against racial and religious bigotry. I have a bias that leads me to believe in the essential goodness of my fellow man, which leads me to believe that no problem of human relations is ever insoluble.

Ralph Bunche

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

Ralph Bunche

#9. I have a monster under my bed, and it's Mouse.

Jim Butcher

#10. 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.

Ralph Bunche

#11. Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

Ralph Bunche

#12. 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.

Ralph Bunche

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

Ralph Bunche

#14. 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.

Ralph Bunche

#15. It was love at first sight. It was 'Oh my God he's so cute at first sight'. - Eleanor ( Eleanor and Park )

Rainbow Rowell

#16. I cried to the Lord. He heard my tears of prayer, from His holy hill.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. No one ever goes to libraries. And they know ALL the good stuff. (Layla Miller)

Craig Kyle

#18. I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

Ally Sheedy

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

Ralph Bunche

#20. 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.

Ralph Bunche

#21. I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

Jennifer Walkup

#22. Man, who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!

Doris Lessing

#23. There is no problem of human nature which is insoluble.

Ralph Bunche

#24. Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler Yeats

#25. We can never have too much preparation and training. We must be a strong competitor. We must adhere staunchly to the basic principle that anything less than full equality is not enough. If we compromise on that principle our soul is dead.

Ralph Bunche

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

Ralph Bunche

#27. O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud
what stirs you if the senses show you nothing? Light stirs you, formed in Heaven, by itself, or by His will Who sends it down to us.

Dante Alighieri

#28. 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.

Ralph Bunche

#29. The delirious visions when they came to him may have owed something to opium as well as to a high temperature, since opium was then a normal remedy for ague or malaria.

Oliver Sacks

#30. There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

Ralph Bunche