Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1877
AUTHOR:
Eugene Carson Blake (1906–85)
QUOTATION:
We cannot remain silent on Viet Nam. We should remember that whatever victory there may be possible, it will have a racial stigma…. It will always be the case of a predominantly white power killing an Asian nation. We are interested in peace, not just for Christians but for the whole of humanity.
ATTRIBUTION:
EUGENE CARSON BLAKE, remarks at a World Council of Churches meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, February 12, 1966, as reported in The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1966, p. A–5.
