Paul Robeson

I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual…

— 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

Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.

— Paul Robeson

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

— 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

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

— Paul Robeson

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

— Paul Robeson

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

— 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

In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning…

— Paul Robeson

Artists are the radical voice of civilization.

— Paul Robeson

The artist must elect to fight for Freedom or for Slavery.

— 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

Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are…

— 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

The Korean war has always been an unpopular war among the American people.

— Paul Robeson

I am truly happy that I am able to travel from time to time to the USSR the country I love above…

— Paul Robeson

My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…

— Paul Robeson

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

— Paul Robeson

This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen.

— Paul Robeson

Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight…

— 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

In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that…

— Paul Robeson

The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.

— 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