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The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.
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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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 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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Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.
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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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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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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 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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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.
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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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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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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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At every step the vast majority have expressed horror at the idea of an aggressive war.
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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'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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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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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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You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction.
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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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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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Freedom is a hard-bought thing and millions are in chains, but they strain toward the new day drawing near.
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