Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

The time is always right to do what is right.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.

I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for "the brotherhood of man".