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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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I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above all. I always have been, I am now and will always be a loyal friend of the Soviet Union.
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The talents of an artist, small or great, are God-given. They've nothing to do with the private person they're nothing to be proud of. They're just a sacred trust... Having been given, I must give. Man shall not live by bread alone, and what the farmer does I must do. I must feed the people - with my songs.
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As an artist I come to sing, but as a citizen, I will always speak for peace, and no one can silence me in this.
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And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.
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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
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This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been put squarely to the American people, they have registered for peace.
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I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the President of these United States.
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If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.
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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 feel closer to my country than ever. There is no longer a feeling of lonesome isolation. Instead-peace. I return without fearing prejudice that once bothered me . . . for I know that people practice cruel bigotry in their ignorance, not maliciously
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We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.
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