"As Americans, preserving the best..." — Paul Robeson
"As Americans, preserving the best..."
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Paul Robeson
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72 Quotes by Paul Robeson
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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 American Quotes
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
— Louis Armstrong
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
— Pearl Bailey
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
— Pearl Bailey
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
— Ella Baker
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
— Josephine Baker
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
— James A. Baldwin
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
— James A. Baldwin
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
— James A. Baldwin
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
— James A. Baldwin
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
— James A. Baldwin
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