"We travel together, passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft. We cannot maintain it half fortunate, half miserable, half confident, half despairing, half slave—to the ancient enemies of man—half free in a liberation of resources undreamed of until this day. No craft, no crew can travel safely with such vast contradictions.
SHIRIKI VITENDO VYA MAADILI YA UFUMBUZI KUHAKIKISHA DUNIA ENDELEVU “Tuna safiri pamoja, abiria katika meli ndogo ya hewani, inayo tegemea akiba ya hewa na udongo unaoweza kudhuriwa; zote tukijipa sharti kwa usalama wetu kwa usalama na amani ya chombo; kilichohifadhiwa kutokana na kuangamizwa tu kwa utunzi, kazi na nitasema upendo tunaopatia vyombo vyetu dhaifu. Hatuwezi kuihifadhi nusu ufanisi, nusu duni, nusu na ujasiri, nusu yenye kukata tamaa, nusu utumwa - kwa adui wa kale wa binadamu – nusu huru katika ukombozi wa rasilimali yenye hatujawahi ota hadi wa leo. Hakuna chombo, wala wafanyikazi wa baharini wanaweza safiri kwa usalama na utata mkubwa mno jinsi hii.