There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.

There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness.

Unless you have found something in life to live for that is more important to you than your own life, you will always be a slave. For all another man needs to do is threaten to take your life to get you to do his bidding.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Life's piano can only produce melodies of brotherhood (and sisterhood) when it is recognized that the black keys are as basic, necessary and beautiful as the white keys.

I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.