To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state.

Everybody has the blues. Everybody longs for meaning. Everybody needs to love and be loved. Everybody needs to clap hands and be happy. Everybody longs for faith. In music, especially this broad category called jazz, there is a stepping-stone to all of these.

Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself.

We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.