"Americans will be amazed to find ho many……" — Paul Robeson
"Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage."
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72 Quotes by Paul Robeson
Paul Robeson has 72 quotes on this site.
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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…
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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here…
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This is our home and this is our country. Beneath its soil lie bones of our fathers; for it some…
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Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department…
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Like any other people, like fathers, mothers, sons and daughters in every land, when the issue of peace or war…
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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…
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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…
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In all spheres of modern life the influence of Stalin reaches wide and deep. From his last simply written but…
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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…
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More African Quotes
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The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa…
— Chinua Achebe
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
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Most African women are taught to endure abusive marriages. They say endurance means a good wife but most women endure…
— Joyce Banda
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look…
— Dave Barry
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Diabetes occurs at twice the rate in the African American community as it does in white Americans.
— Xavier Becerra
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I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell…
— Glenn Beck
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
— Larry Bird
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From being a little girl in the projects, going through all of the mess that I was going through, to…
— Mary J. Blige
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I…
— Bono
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It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal…
— Bono
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The idea that there is one kind of African is, of course, ridiculous. Sometimes African entrepreneurs want to kill you…
— Bono
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