If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.

Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves.

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!"

When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born.

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

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.