Life's most persistent and urgent question is: what are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

In our society, it is psychological murder to deprive a man of a job...you are in substance saying to that man "You have no right to exist.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties.

Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise.

Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method.

The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood.