My obligation is to do the right thing. The rest is in God's hands.

A nation that will keep people in slavery for 244 years will "thingify" them and make them things. And therefore, they will exploit them and poor people generally economically. And a nation that will exploit economically will have to have foreign investments and everything else, and it will have to use its military might to protect them. All of these problems are tied together. What I'm saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, "America, you must be born again!"

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!

I may be crucified for my beliefs and, if I am, you can say, "He died to make men free.

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.

It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.