Ralph Bunche Quotes

United States, Diplomat
August 7, 1904 – December, 9, 1971.

Ralph Johnson Bunche (; August 7, 1904 – December 9, 1971) was an American political scientist, academic, and diplomat who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s mediation in Israel. He was the first African American to be so honored in the history of the prize. He was involved in the formation and administration of the United Nations. In 1963, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President John F. Kennedy.

Also known as Political Scientist

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
- World
- Country
- Better
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.

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- Up
- Work
- Persistence

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders.

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- People
- Just
- Leaders
The world and its peoples being as they are, there is no easy or quick or infallible approach to a secure peace. It is only by patient, persistent, undismayed effort, by trial and error, that peace can be won. Nor can it be won cheaply, as the taxpayer is learning.

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- World
- Peace
- Learning
Peoples everywhere wish and long for peace and freedom in their simplest and clearest connotations: an end to armed conflict and to the suppression of the inalienable rights of man.

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- Long
- Freedom
- Peace
To suggest that war can prevent war is a base play on words and a despicable form of warmongering. The objective of any who sincerely believe in peace clearly must be to exhaust every honourable recourse in the effort to save the peace. The world has had ample evidence that war begets only conditions which beget further war.

Ralph Bunche
- World
- Believe
- War
Hearts are the strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals.

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- Beat
- Noble
- Ideals
The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

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- World
- Great
- Hope

There will be no security in our world, no release from agonizing tension, no genuine progress, no enduring peace, until, in Shelley's fine words, 'reason's voice, loud as the voice of nature, shall have waked the nations'.

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- World
- Nature
- Words
If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.

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- Up
- Want
- You