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This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
Paul Robeson
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Paul Robeson
Age: 77 †
Born: 1898
Born: April 9
Died: 1976
Died: January 23
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Paul Leroy Robeson
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The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on forever.
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Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.
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I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.
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I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They are not-in Montgomery. That is why I am here today. . . . You want to shut up every colored person who wants to fight for the rights of his people!.
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In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being.
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