I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income.

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.

The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all.

Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it.

There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong.

If you have not discovered something you are willing to die for, then you are not fit to live.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.