Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

[E]very human life is a reflection of divinity, and... every act of injustice mars and defaces the image of God in man.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice.

Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.