How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed; that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.
Source: Freedom Suite.
-- Sonny Rollins, (Sep 7 1930-____), US jazz musician; He was a tenor saxophonist who was among the finest improvisers on the instrument to appear since the mid-1950s.