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Paul Robeson has 72 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The intolerance of the few, or the risk of it, carries the day against the wider humanity of the many.
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The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end the injustice.
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I learned that along with the towering achievements of the cultures of ancient Greece and China there stood the culture of Africa,…
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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have…
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some of them…
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is:…
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war has been…
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I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere…
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Get them to sing your song and they will want to know who you are.
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I stand here struggling for the rights of my people to be full citizens in this country. They are not-in Mississippi. They…
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In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but vastly discerning…
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As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march…
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The right to defy an unconstitutional statute is basic in our scheme. Even when an ordinance requires a permit to make a…
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action
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My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry…
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