At his funeral U Thant, Roy Wilkins, and Brian Urquhart delivered eulogies, and Leontyne Price sang. He was buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
In 1980 the U.N. dedicated a sculpture in his memory in a small park across from the main entrance to the complex. Peace Form One was by Daniel Johnson, whose father Bunche had known when he was growing up in Los Angeles. On a stone wall in the park, which was renamed "Ralph Bunche Park," has been carved a biblical quotation that Bunche used to begin a speech he gave in 1926 as a UCLA student:
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore. (Isaiah 2:4)
