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Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.

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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 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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At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.
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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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This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.
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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
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Freedom is a hard-bought thing.
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Artists are the radical voice of civilization.
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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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The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.
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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 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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Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
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