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Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political beliefs or sympathies, may enjoy their constitutional rights.
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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Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the free world-meaning white Imperialism.
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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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In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the hysteria and propaganda to drive into American minds the false notion that danger threatened them from the East.
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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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I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.
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The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.
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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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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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My future depends mostly upon myself.
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I know that if the peace movement takes its message boldly to the Negro people a powerful force can be secured in pursuit of the greatest goal of all mankind. And the same is true of labor and the great democratic sections of our population.
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Freedom is a hard-bought thing.
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I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa, unseen and denied by the imperialist looters of Africa's material wealth.
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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 found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath their new pride in their race. It is as if they wanted to put it behind them as something to be ashamed of.
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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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The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
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Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
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Artists are the radical voice of civilization.
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If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people everywhere - let them work together to accomplish on a worldwide scale, precisely the kind of democratic association of free people which characterizes the Soviet Union today.
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I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
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