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title: "2 Sunday morning Quotes By Paul Robeson"
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> [Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies. Then, too, I heard these songs in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/yes-i-heard-my-people-singing-in-the-glow-of-parlor-coal-stove-and-on/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

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> [Yes, I heard my people singing!-in the glow of parlor coal-stove and on summer porches sweet with lilac air, from choir loft and Sunday morning pews-and my soul was filled with their harmonies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/yes-i-heard-my-people-singing-in-the-glow-of-parlor-coal-stove-and-on-2/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

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## Other authors on Sunday morning

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joyce-meyer-53800.jpg) Joyce Meyer 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sunday-morning/joyce-meyer/)

## More by Paul Robeson

> [I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/i-found-a-special-eagerness-among-the-younger-and-i-am-sorry-to-say/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 can their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/through-my-singing-and-acting-and-speaking-i-want-to-make-freedom/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/artists-are-the-gate-keepers-of-truth-we-are-civilization-s-radical/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [To be free . . . to walk the good American earth as equal citizens, to live without fear, to enjoy the fruits of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/to-be-free-to-walk-the-good-american-earth-as-equal-citizens-to-live/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 gave Othello…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/with-othello-shakespeare-posed-this-problem-of-a-black-man-in-a-white/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/get-them-to-sing-your-song-and-they-will-want-to-know-who-you-are/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [ We \[must\] realize that our future lies chiefly in our own hands. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/we-must-realize-that-our-future-lies-chiefly-in-our-own-hands/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/but-the-deep-desire-for-peace-remained-with-the-american-people/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/through-the-years-i-have-received-my-share-of-recognition-for-efforts/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning and comprehensive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/in-all-spheres-of-modern-life-the-influence-of-stalin-reaches-wide/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [Artists are the radical voice of civilization.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/artists-are-the-radical-voice-of-civilization/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/the-artist-must-elect-to-fight-for-freedom-or-for-slavery/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [The man who accepts Western values absolutely, finds his creative faculties becoming so warped and stunted that he is almost completely dependent on external…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/the-man-who-accepts-western-values-absolutely-finds-his-creative/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/vast-quantities-of-u-s-bombers-tanks-and-guns-have-been-sent-against/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

> [Four hundred million in India, and millions everywhere, have told you, precisely, that the colored people are not going to die for anybody: they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-robeson/four-hundred-million-in-india-and-millions-everywhere-have-told-you/)

[Paul Robeson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-robeson/)

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