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Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.

Paul Robeson

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Paul Robeson
Age: 77 †
Born: 1898
Born: April 9
Died: 1976
Died: January 23
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Princeton
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Paul Leroy Robeson
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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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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare gave Othello such dignity - he came not from - as he said - not from hate but from honor, from a sense of his own human dignity. And to me, to my mind, there could be no greater character played.
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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 do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American imperialism, just as the resistance movement fought against Hitler.
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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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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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