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

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation.