This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Why should the Negroes ever fight against the only nations of the world where racial discrimination is prohibited, and where the people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is:… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Through my singing and acting and speaking, I want to make freedom ring. Maybe I can touch people's hearts better than I can their… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
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… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image