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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
Actor
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Film Actor
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Princeton
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Paul Leroy Robeson
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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
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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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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 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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Freedom is a hard-bought thing.
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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 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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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
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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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The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.
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Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
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You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
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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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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.
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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.
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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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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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The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.
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To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of our toil, to give our children every opportunity in life--that dream which we have held so long in our hearts is today the destiny that we hold in our hands.
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