Paul Robeson Short Quotes

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I shall take my voice wherever there are those who want to hear the melody of freedom

Paul Robeson
In my music, my plays, my films, I want to carry always this central idea: to be African.

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If the American Negro is to have a culture of his own he will have to leave America to get it.

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Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

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You are the non-patriots, and you are the un-Americans, and you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.

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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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We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility.

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Films make me into some cheap turn... You bet they'll never let me play a part in a film where a Negro is on top.

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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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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.

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As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

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And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

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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.

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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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Songs of liberation – who can lock them up? The spirit of freedom – who can jail it? A people's unity – what lash can beat it down? Civil rights – what doubletalk can satisfy our needs?

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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.

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I found it very offensive to my people. It makes the Negro childlike and innocent and is in the old plantation hallelujah shouter tradition... the same old story, the negro singing his way to glory.

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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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