The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clear...ly. Everything will be all right--you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prosp...ect of success nor the consequence of failure--but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The structure of a jazz performance is, like that of the New York skyline, a tension of cross-purposes. In jazz at its characteris...tic best, each player seems to be--and has the sense of being--on his own. Each goes his own way, inventing rhythmic and melodic patterns which, superficially, seem to have as little relevance to one another as the United Nations building does to the Empire State. And yet the outcome is a dazzlingly precise creative unity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The United Nations cannot do anything, and never could; it is not an animate entity or agent. It is a place, a stage, a forum and ...a shrine ... a place to which powerful people can repair when they are fearful about the course on which their own rhetoric seems to be propelling them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the Unit...ed Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I still have faith occasionally in the brotherhood of man, and in spite of all the tragedies that have intervened since [1945],... believe that sometime, somehow, all the nations of the world can work together for the common good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal a...bortions and unwanted children.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »