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• The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.
• I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956 with my brothers and sisters and first cousins, I was only 16…
• We have come a long way in America because of Martin Luther King, Jr. He led a disciplined, nonviolent revolution under the…
• I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.
• I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination…
• We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
• Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in…
• Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker,…
• When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was…
• If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take that long hard look and just believe…
• We live in a country where we're supposed to have freedom of the press and religious freedom, but I think to some…
• You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

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