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"It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another."
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"Revolution starts in the mind. Question Everything!"

"Abortion should be listed as a weapon of mass destruction against the voiceless."

"Always contend for the good!"

"Don't be a witness. Be an activist."

"During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

"Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we still can, then maybe one of your children may elect to do so in the future, when it will be far more riskier - and much, much harder."
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"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music."

"Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence."

"Trumpet players see each other, and it's like we're getting ready to square off or get into a fight or something."

"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."

"I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy."

"We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation."

"The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard."

"People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly."
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