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Paul Robeson Quotes

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But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Artists are the gatekeepers of truth  (Paul Robeson Quotes) As Americans, preserving the best  (Paul Robeson Quotes) The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery  (Paul Robeson Quotes) The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people  (Paul Robeson Quotes) In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice like in Washington. It was the first time I felt like a human being  (Paul Robeson Quotes) 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  (Paul Robeson Quotes) 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  (Paul Robeson Quotes) 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  (Paul Robeson Quotes) This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen  (Paul Robeson Quotes) If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it  (Paul Robeson Quotes) The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread  (Paul Robeson Quotes) In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African  (Paul Robeson Quotes) 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 Quotes) Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage  (Paul Robeson Quotes) My mother was born in your state, mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of Washington baked bread for George Washington’s troops when they crossed the Delaware, and my own father was a slave  (Paul Robeson Quotes) This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.  (Paul Robeson Quotes) You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.  (Paul Robeson Quotes) 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.  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are  (Paul Robeson Quotes) The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice  (Paul Robeson Quotes) My future depends mostly upon myself  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Artists are the radical voice of civilization  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice  (Paul Robeson Quotes) You know I am an actor, and I have medals for diction  (Paul Robeson Quotes) The artist must elect to fight for freedom or slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative  (Paul Robeson Quotes) 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  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be  (Paul Robeson Quotes) Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative  (Paul Robeson Quotes)
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