Paul Robeson

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

— Paul Robeson

Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.

— Paul Robeson

We ask for nothing that is not right, and herein lies the great power of our demand.

— Paul Robeson

We [must] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands.

— Paul Robeson

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

— Paul Robeson

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

— Paul Robeson

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

— Paul Robeson

We ask for nothing that is not ours by right, and herein lies the great moral power of our demand.

— Paul Robeson

I do not hesitate one second to state clearly and unmistakably: I belong to the American resistance movement which fights against American…

— Paul Robeson

In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being. No color prejudice like in Mississippi, no color prejudice…

— Paul Robeson

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then…

— Paul Robeson

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere…

— Paul Robeson

I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the…

— Paul Robeson

“This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting…

— Paul Robeson

In fact, because of this deep desire for peace, the ruling class leaders of this land, from 1945 on, stepped up the…

— Paul Robeson

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably,…

— Paul Robeson

The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent…

— Paul Robeson

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on…

— Paul Robeson

“There are others, honest men beyond all doubt and sincerely concerned with their people's welfare, who seem to feel that it is…

— Paul Robeson

For the first time since I began acting, I feel that I've found my place in the world, that there's something out…

— Paul Robeson

To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the…

— Paul Robeson

Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people…

— Paul Robeson

If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people…

— Paul Robeson

With Othello, Shakespeare posed this problem of a black man in a white society in the role that he's playing. And Shakespeare…

— Paul Robeson

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

— Paul Robeson

The faces and the tactics of the leaders may change every four years, or two, or one, but the people go on…

— Paul Robeson

Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause.

— Paul Robeson

The other reason that I am here today, again from the State Department and from the court record of the court of…

— Paul Robeson

Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft…

— Paul Robeson

Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for…

— Paul Robeson

This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…

— Paul Robeson

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men…

— Paul Robeson

I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of…

— Paul Robeson

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people,…

— Paul Robeson

I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,…

— Paul Robeson

Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been…

— Paul Robeson

Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I…

— Paul Robeson

My mother was born in your state, Mr. Walter, and my mother was a Quaker, and my ancestors in the time of…

— Paul Robeson

Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for…

— Paul Robeson

When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the…

— Paul Robeson