"I've learned that my people are not the……" — Paul Robeson
"I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own."
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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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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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Whether I am or am not a Communist is irrelevant. The question is whether American citizens, regardless of their political…
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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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