Duke Ellington on Freedom

I was watching Ken Burns' documentary, Jazz.  last night. It is an excellent history if anyone is interested and available on I Tunes which is where I purchased it. In it, he had a clip of Duke Ellington's US Presidential Medal of Freedom acceptance speech in 1969. Ellington had this to say of the four major freedoms to live by:

• freedom from hate, unconditionally;
• freedom from self-pity;
• freedom from fear of possibly doing something that may help someone else more than it would you; and
• freedom from the kind of pride that could make a man feel that he is better than his brother.

Great words of wisdom and good point of reflection.