My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
If the United States and the United Nations truly want peace and security let them fulfill the hopes of the common people… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I said it was my feeling that the American people would struggle for peace, and that has since been underscored by the… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I am being tried for fighting for the right of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of… — 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
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