It wasn't just a black thing. It was a unity thing.

He came to Savannah many times walking these same streets with the marching and I've seen him several times during the '60s. We all was involved in the movement.

I'm feeling pride and honor in this parade. It brings back so many memories, lot of memories.

To be a jazz freedom fighter is to attempt to galvanize and energize world-weary people into forms of organization with accountable leadership that promote critical exchange and broad reflection. The interplay of individuality and unity is not one of uniformity and unanimity imposed from above but rather of conflict among diverse groupings that reach a dynamic consensus subject to questioning and criticism. As with a soloist in a jazz quartet, quintet or band, individuality is promoted in order to sustain and increase the creative tension with the group--a tension that yields higher levels of performance to achieve the aim of the collective project.

If we were really to see one another as brothers and sisters, there would be no basis for division, cheating and exploitation among us.

Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die! Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel, The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!