There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

This is the unusual thing about nonviolence -- nobody is defeated, everybody shares in the victory.

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

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

Violence multiplies violence.

Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.