We can either walk the highroad of brotherhood or the low road of man's inhumanity to man.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

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.

I think that we must face the fact that in reality, you cannot have economic and political equality without having some form of social equality. I think this is inevitable.

We will never have peace in the world until men everywhere recognize that ends are not cut off from means, because the means represent the ideal in the making, and the end in process, and ultimately you can't reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool.

Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek.