There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.

This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make it one in terms of brotherhood.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

We can walk through the darkest night with the radiant conviction that all things work together for the good.

For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.