"If the world is engaged in a dispute between survival and destruction...then we, as members of the human race, must address ourselves to that dispute."

Quote: 

If the world is engaged in a dispute between survival and destruction...then we, as members of the human race, must address ourselves to that dispute. 

Attribution: 

Lorraine Hansberry, “The Negro Writer and His Roots: Toward a New Romanticism,” The Black Scholar 12 (March/April 1981): 3