This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

I just want to leave a committed life behind.

Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly.

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

I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American.

Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.