THE WORDS OF MRA

ON SEX:

"I think men and girls should enter into marriage straight and pure. I don't think playing with yourself is pure; I think it's dirty. I don't think people with perverted habits are more or less wrong than people with unperverted habits, but they can be cured... I don't believe that the exploitation of another person's body because it is a different sex is any more noble than the exploitation of another person's labor because he is a different color. Very simply, I believe in purity. I don't thank that God, who gave a man and woman instincts, is so impotent that He cannot teach them to control them.''' (Peter Howard in MRA: What is it?)

ON THE PEACE CORPS:

"If you are going to send out a Peace Corps in the modern world, you've got to teach them to live straight." (Peter Howard in Pace, July-Aug., 1965)

ON THE WATTS RIOTS:

"The problem is not one of conditions--color, class or even Communism. The problem is that millions of people from Watts to Washington have nothing great to live for." (Pace, Dec., 1965)

ON VIETNAM:

"There is another possibility [for solving the problem of Vietnam]. It was suggested to me by the late President Diem shortly before he was killed and he was overruled by certain people in the United States State Department. It was, and I quote, 'A massive saturation program of Vietnam by Moral Re-Armament.'" (Peter Howard in Pace, July-Aug., 1965)

ON THE PRAYER DECISION:

"If we curb God on the upbringing of our children, as we curb dogs in our streets, we are on the road to tyranny." (Design for Dedication, p. 178)

ON CHINA:

"I think Chiang Kai-shek is one of the most abused and misused men of modern history ... I think if Red China is recognized, you will have a potent Chinese minority in every Asian country who will turn to Peking and no more look to Washington." (Design for Dedication, p. 172)

ON THE DEVELOPING NATIONS:

"What these underprivileged countries need are revolutionary Americans who go in there and say: 'We understand Marx and Communism. We understand you. We've got a far bigger plan for you and your country, and we've got the discipline to see you achieve it.'" (Peter Howard in MRA: What is it?)

ON AMERICA'S ROLE IN THE WORLD:

"Some nation soon is going to teach the world that free men can accept an aim for humanity bigger than that of any Marxist or any Fascist. They are going to show that free men have the discipline, tradition and faith to pursue that aim with passion and unanimity until it is achieved. One nation guided by God will show the world how to live... And the children of the earth and their children's children will rise up and call that nation blessed."